- [first lines]
- Captain Walter Anderson: [voice-over] New York City: an architectural jungle where fabulous wealth and the deepest squalor live side by side. New York: the busiest, the loneliest, the kindest, and the cruelest of cities. I live here and work here. My name is Walter Anderson. I'm one of an army of twenty thousand whose job is to protect the citizens in this city of eight million. So, twenty-four hours a day you'll find our men on Park Avenue... Times Square... Central Park... Fulton Market... the subway. Three hundred and eighty new citizens are being born today in the city of New York. One hundred and sixty-four couples are being married. One hundred and ninety-two persons will die. Twelve persons will die violent deaths. And at least one of them will be a victim of murder. A murder a day, every day of the year, and each murder will wind up on my desk.
- [last lines]
- Captain Walter Anderson: [voice-over] This is the story of Joe Norson. No hero. No criminal. Just human, like all of us. Weak, like some of us. A bit foolish, like most of us. Now that we know some of the facts, we can help him. He's gonna be all right.
- Captain Walter Anderson: [to another detective who is removing bundles of cash from a gunned-down criminal's body] That's evidence, you know - no souvenirs.
- Gus Heldon: [behind the bar] Hello, young fella.
- [notices the bruises on his face]
- Gus Heldon: Say... you been in an accident?
- Joe Norson: Yeah. I'll have a beer.
- Gus Heldon: What you need's a pick-me-up.
- [pours him a shot glass of liquor]
- Gus Heldon: Hundred proof, on the house. You can pay for the chaser.
- Emil Lorrison: [making a blackmail payoff to his mistress] I couldn't raise the whole amount, only half. That's all I'll be able to raise.
- Lucille 'Lucky' Colner: Oh, come on now, sweetie. That isn't what Dun and Bradstreet says. They give you a double "A" rating.
- Emil Lorrison: Those ratings mean nothing. Fifteen thousand was all I could manage.
- [angrily]
- Emil Lorrison: The entire affair was a filthy frame-up!
- Lucille 'Lucky' Colner: [with contempt] Take a look at yourself, Grandpa. First you sell yourself I'm nuts about you, crazy for your manly charms. And now you think this is bargain day. Well, go on down to Gimbel's Bargain Basement! You're in the wrong department! Take that other fifteen grand out of your pants or get out! I got a dinner date.
- [pauses, continues with a smirk]
- Lucille 'Lucky' Colner: I could do business with your wife.
- Harriet Sinton: [drunkenly putting his arm around herself] Hey, I fit, don't I?
- Joe Norson: Like a motorman's glove.
- Captain Walter Anderson: [Captain Anderson has been questioning crooked attorney Victor Backett] Ever hear of Emil Lorrison counselor?
- Victor Backett: Why no I don't think so
- Voice: [to Anderson over the radio] All set downstairs
- Victor Backett: You'll find me in my office if there's anything I can do
- [Backett gets his hat and heads towards the door but Detective Stanley Simon blocks him]
- Stanley Simon: [Smirking] Wait around counselor
- Victor Backett: [Enraged] You can't hold me!
- Captain Walter Anderson: We'll talk about it later. You, me, Emil Lorrison and Joe Norson and maybe that big ape
- [pointing to a picture of Georgie Garsell]
- Captain Walter Anderson: I want this man here when I get back
- [Anderson & Simon leave]
- Captain Walter Anderson: [Captain Walter Anderson is entering the building having to go through the crowd of reporters] You fellas sure decorated this hallway. Nothing more yet maybe later.
- [Anderson enters Lucky's apartment and sees Detective Stanley Simon holding her dog]
- Captain Walter Anderson: Who's your friend?
- Stanley Simon: Oh, why, he was here when we got in. He howls if you don't hold him
- [he gives the dog to another detective]
- Captain Walter Anderson: What have you got so far?
- Stanley Simon: Nothing much. He takes care of the building
- [pointing to a man sat down on a sofa with two other people]
- Lucky's Apartment Super: I'm the superintendent in charge of the building management
- Stanley Simon: [interrputs] She moved in last October. Quiet tenant he says. He took her down last evening in the elevator about six alone. She wore
- [pointing to Detective Gottschalk]
- Det. Gottschalk: Same clothes found on the body
- Captain Walter Anderson: Who's she?
- Stanley Simon: Cleaning woman
- Lucky's Housekeeper: I'm the housekeeper
- Captain Walter Anderson: Thank you. We'll talk to you again, you can go now
- [the three being questioned all get up]
- Lucky's Apartment Super: Captain I wish you could so something about those people outside there it's very bad for the building
- Captain Walter Anderson: Just tell them to get out
- Lucky's Apartment Super: I did. They told me to sweep the floor
- Captain Walter Anderson: Tell them who you are
- Lucky's Apartment Super: I will
- [he leaves]