- [afterword]
- Alfred Hitchcock: [Hitchcock is still holding the machine gun] To summarize the next reel, Harry did as he threatened, and Marian lived happily ever after. She had a rich, full life. It was too bad Harry was not there to share it with her, but of course,
- [Hitchcock shrugs]
- Alfred Hitchcock: crime does not pay, murder will out, etcetera, etcetera. And now, good night until we again bring you a saga of suspense and/or mystery. Good night.
- [introduction]
- Alfred Hitchcock: [carrying a cello case] Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. A special word to those of you who have been arrested while speeding home to see this show. I can do nothing to bail you out. And I'm afraid the magistrate is only slightly in my debt. I shall, however, do everything I can to make you forget your troubles.
- [walks over to a table]
- Alfred Hitchcock: Tonight's narrative is about gangsters.
- [places cello case on table and opens it]
- Alfred Hitchcock: And I thought I'd best test some of the props.
- [takes out a machine gun and shoots it; it makes the sounds of piano keys]
- Alfred Hitchcock: I would like to play "The Flight of the Bumblebee." But we must get on with the show.
- Harry Silver: Once, centuries ago, there was a French hoodlum called Francois Villon. He was just like me, a no-good crook and a killer, but whenever he was in love, he'd turn into a poet. He wrote some great things. Just listen to this, King. " When death, that cheater of cheats comes knocking, and his voice grows near, where are the snows of yesteryear?" Do you like that, King?
- Louis Koster: Yeah.
- [last lines]
- Harry Silver: Good. Now I think I'll kill you.
- Harry Silver: Sorry to disturb you King, but I came back to say that I've changed my mind.
- Louis Koster: About what?
- Harry Silver: I'm not gonna do it.
- Louis Koster: What do you mean?
- Harry Silver: I'm not going to kill that guy.
- Louis Koster: Why not?
- Harry Silver: I'm just not in the mood to kill myself.
- Cutter: [quotes his notes] The man, "I'm only human, I've a natural curiosity. You walk into my arms out of the blue like some goddess from a Greek myth."
- Louis Koster: Is this fellow a Greek?
- Cutter: Er no, he's just being poetical again.
- Louis Koster: [laughing] So you like poetry too, huh?
- Harry Silver: You wouldn't understand King. The only two things that a man should die for or live for are a poem or a woman like Marian.