- 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.
- Penny Kendall: Look at the news value! 'Chronicle campaigns for clean sportsmanship'. Think of the circulation angle! I'll sell Bill Steele to the women readers. We'll make this a campaign against the gambling syndicates, men like Clipper McCoy and Nick Crowder. 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 taxi-cabs!