- [in trying to find the killer, the detective pushes a button marked "RING FOR SUSPECTS"; the butler, maid, and chauffeur all appear]
- Detective: Okay, which one of you mugs bumped off the old boy? Who done it?
- Butler, Maid, Chauffeur: Ohhhh, now, wouldn't YOU like to know!
- [first lines]
- Host: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, through the medium of the animated cartoon, we present a murder mystery condensed from authentic criminal records. It is my sincere purpose, in exposing the brutal killer involved in this horrible case, to prove to you beyond the shadow of a doubt that crime does not pay. Our story opens on a dark and stormy night.