- Title Card: Fall River, Massachusetts - 1893.
- Girls: [jumping rope and singing] Lizzie Borden took an axe, she killed her mother with 40 whacks. After she saw what she has done, she gave her father 41.
- Title Card: Four months after the acquittal of Lizzie Borden for the murders of her parents.
- Caroline - Pigtailed Girl: I'm not afraid of you.
- Lizzie Borden: Then you haven't been paying attention.