- Perry Mason: I'd love to help, Eileen, if only because you were the first woman who ever proposed to me.
- [to Della Street]
- Perry Mason: It was on her father's farm in Oregon. She was seven at the time.
- Eileen Harrison: I was not! I was eight and a half, and you turned me down.
- Della Street: He probably thought you were too old for him!
- Luke Hickey: [Confessing in open court to the murder of Frank Curran] It's funny how things work out. You saw my place. It's really a dump. But you don't know what it means. People on the street would say, "There goes Luke Hickey. He owns a restaurant." It's... very important to me. Kinda. Do you know what I mean? Then when I couldn't meet my bills, I guess... I just flipped. Then when I saw this crumb who... probably never did an honest day's work in his whole life, I... I don't know, it just didn't seem right that he should have all this money, and... I should need it so bad.
- [last lines]
- Paul Drake: The way I see it, Perry doesn't stand to make a dime in this case. After all, the Harrison's can't afford to pay him. So how can he afford to pay me?
- Perry Mason: That's a very good question, Paul. Come to think of it, I can't.
- [Perry proceeds to tear up Paul's check that Della had just given him]
- [first lines]
- Eileen Harrison: But there must be some mistake. I know my husband took care of the payment last week. Look, cou... Couldn't you at least wait till my husband gets home, and maybe he... Oh, darling, I'm so glad you're home. These men are from Walsh's.