- Sgt. V. L. 'Bubba' Skinner: You got a right to keep your mouth shut. You say anything, we gonna hang it on ya later.
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: Is there a full moon or what?
- Althea Tibbs: I don't know.
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: I don't like it one bit. Too many odd occurrences lately, and seems to me they all must be connected somehow. First of all, there's the baby; then there's poor Mrs. Longwood; then there's Cassie driving to Sparta in that car. Now Sheriff McComb comes tell me there's a valuable necklace missing.
- Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs: Ok, so it sounds like there's a connection. Let's find it.
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: Well, where do you suppose we ought to begin?
- Althea Tibbs: I think you should start where the baby's clothes were bought.
- Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs: The baby's clothes are no big deal, baby.
- Althea Tibbs: It was a baby boy dressed in pink - wrong. Bought by a man? Probably the baby's father?
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: You know something, I think maybe we hired the wrong Tibbs around here.