- Carl Kolchak: Now, if you can help me, I, uh, I can make it worth your while.
- Ted Chapman: How do you know how much my while is worth?
- Lieutenant Irene Lamont: Did a guy come in here wearing a seersucker suit with red hair?
- Receptionist: There was a Mr. Kolchak. I believe he was with a nickel firm in New Mexico.
- Lieutenant Irene Lamont: He's got nothing to do with nickel. He's the proverbial bad penny. Now, where is he?
- Tony Vincenzo: [Angrily, in reply to Kolchak who criticized the way he's eating] Don't tell me what to do with my mouth!