- [Photographer Fred Reynolds and his guide, Charlie Moore are watching an alligator battle a large animal]
- Fred Reynolds: Charlie, I don't care if you've been a guide in these swamps for a hundred years. You can't tell me that you aren't excited by that fight.
- Charlie Moore: Yeah, but it bothers me they're chewin' up good hide.
- [Charlie is tinkering with his fishing rod]
- Fred Reynolds: What are you doin'? Tryin' for that old catfish again, Charlie?
- Charlie Moore: Yeah.
- Fred Reynolds: I think he's to smart for ya.
- Charlie Moore: He's smart all right. Wouldn't be that big and that old if he wasn't - not in these glades.
- Fred Reynolds: You're right there. Hundred square miles of swamp and every foot loaded with treachery. I don't see how anything or anybody gets big or old out here.
- Charlie Moore: From what I hear, city's no better.
- Fred Reynolds: It's good to see you again, Constable. It gets kinda lonely out here with only Charlie to look at.
- Lincoln Vail: You think it's lonely and I think it's overcrowded. Helicopter's landing, seaplanes overhead - about as busy as New York City.