- Mike Hammer: You say you've been trying to get in touch with me for two days - now why? A man just called me and told me you were already my client.
- Sharon O'Closkey: A man with a quiet, educated voice?
- Mike Hammer: Well, he didn't say "ain't" but the things he promised for both of you and I were neither quiet nor educated.
- Sharon O'Closkey: Mike, you're fired! I don't need you anymore.
- Mike Hammer: Good! You don't mind if I have a talk with your boyfriend?
- Sharon O'Closkey: He is not my boyfriend!
- Frank Beulah: That's right.
- Mike Hammer: Then you won't mind if I beat him into a talkative state now, would you?
- [last lines]
- Mike Hammer: I knew right from the beginning that anybody who could lie as fast as you could and be so pretty doing it couldn't all be all good - and that's too bad.