Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (TV Series)

The Bat (1960)

Jason Robards: Detective Anderson

Quotes 

• Detective Anderson : You women are here alone?

  Cornelia Van Gorder : I have this.

  [takes gun out of purse] 

  Cornelia Van Gorder : I don't know much about it but I should be able to hit something.

  [points it at Anderson] 

  Detective Anderson : Would you mind putting that away? I like getting in the papers as much as anybody, but not on THAT page.

• Cornelia Van Gorder : I've been reading your statement tonight about The Bat.

  Detective Anderson : You don't think he's trying to get in here.

  Cornelia Van Gorder : Someone is for some reason.

  Detective Anderson : Any liquor stored in the house?

  Cornelia Van Gorder : Yes.

  Detective Anderson : What?

  Cornelia Van Gorder : 11 bottles of homemade elderberry wine.

  Detective Anderson : You're safe.

• Detective Anderson : The newspapers started calling him The Bat because he always works at night and very fast. In the last 6 months he's taken up the name himself, pure bravado. Sometimes he just draws the outline of a bat to leave his signature, once he got a hold of a real bat and nailed it to the wall.