- Ellery Queen: Have you got it? If you've been watching very closely, you may have seen something I missed until just now. Who killed Alec Nivin? Was it Sonia Dubrinskoff, her husband Alexei, Fourchet the photographer, that antique dealer Easterbrook, or somebody else? Like Barney Groves, or that character from the NKVD? No, it was not Jenny, but I'll give you a clue. Somebody's alibi is all wet.
- Inspector Richard Queen: [Door bell rings] I'm coming, I'm coming... oh... ah.
- Jenny O'Brien: Good morning Inspector!
- Inspector Richard Queen: Morning.
- Jenny O'Brien: Ah... is Ellery up?
- Inspector Richard Queen: I think he's in the kitchen. I smell toast burning!
- Jenny O'Brien: I hope I didn't wake you up.
- Inspector Richard Queen: Oh no no, I had to get up. The door bell was ringing.
- Ellery Queen: Jenny, I've been waiting at Alexander's for about an hour. Now, didn't we have a lunch date?
- Jenny O'Brien: Oh, yes! But that was yesterday. And *I* waited an hour.
- Ellery Queen: Well, yesterday...
- [realizes she's right]
- Ellery Queen: ... was Tuesday.
- Jenny O'Brien: And today is Wednesday, and tomorrow's Thursday, and anyway, I've already eaten.
- Alexsei Dobrenskov: I trust you have no listening devices in this room.
- Inspector Richard Queen: I beg your pardon, THIS IS AMERICA!
- Marcel Fourchet: [describing Gestapo torture] Death did not frighten me. Death would have been a welcome friend.
- Inspector Richard Queen: Ellery, will you please tell Miss O'Brien that I do not think that she killed Colonel Niven? Drove him nuts, yes, but stabbed him, no.