- Lee Chan: Oh, Mr. Moto?
- Kentaro Moto: Yes, Lee?
- Lee Chan: I though you would like to know I got a letter from Pop yesterday.
- Kentaro Moto: Oh, you did?
- Lee Chan: Mm-hmm. He sent his best to you.
- Kentaro Moto: Thank you. And, uh, how is your honorable father enjoying his homelife in beautiful Honolulu?
- Lee Chan: He seems fine, but he kind of worries about me. Y'see, I'm really supposed to be studying art here at the university... but gosh, I want to be a detective!
- Kentaro Moto: [chuckles] I understand. My parents wanted me to be an acrobat.
- Lieutenant Riggs: [frustrated] Medium height, medium build, medium complexion - I'd have to be a medium to find Howard from the description like that Detroit tailor gives me!
- Kentaro Moto: [examining the dead body] This is not suicide Mr. Riggs.
- [dryly]
- Kentaro Moto: It's most unusual to shoot oneself in the back and without a gun.
- Lieutenant Riggs: A sock in the eye ain't homicide. Maybe his ticker went bad on him. Who knows?
- Kentaro Moto: No one... except the coroner.
- Penny Kendall: Oh, Scotty, if you'll turn me loose on this, I'll have this town so deep in tears that they'll be using canoes for taxicabs.
- Lee Chan: Gosh, that's a pretty girl sitting with your friend!
- Lieutenant Riggs: That's his daughter Linda. She's got her nose so high in the air, she'd drown in a rainstorm.
- Lee Chan: [arriving late and in a hurry] We want two good seats down front!
- Ticket Seller: Sorry, we're sold out.
- Horce 'Knock-Out' Wellington: He's sold out?
- [to the ticket taker]
- Horce 'Knock-Out' Wellington: Do you know who we are?
- Ticket Seller: [laconically, as he closes down the ticket window] Sure, a couple of guys that ain't gonna see the fight.
- Nick Crowder: Clipper, you'd suspect your own grandmother!
- Clipper McCoy: Yeah, but you're not my grandmother.
- Nick Crowder: Don't bet on it!
- Nick Crowder: Who pulled the strings to get this fight on tonight?
- Kentaro Moto: I plead guilty, Mr. Crowder. You see, some people save strings; I pull them.