- [first lines]
- Otto Joseph: [on phone] Yes. Yes, darling. I know it's Sunday and I know I promised to take you out for dinner, but I cannot help myself. Yes. Elaine, please understand, your father is still a stranger in this country, a poor stranger who has to work and work hard for a living. Business here is bad. Very bad. I'm worried. I try only to help. You understand? Yeah. Yes, Elaine, I'll try to finish the paperwork early. Then perhaps we still can go out. Good-bye. Good-bye, my baby.
- [last lines]
- Dorian York: Yes, sir, from now on , I'm a confirmed skin diver.
- Carey York: What? A square peg! That's what you are, what you'll always be. A square peg. I'm hungry. Let's eat.
- Paul Drake: He owns a small factory; ekes out a living by manufacturing potentiometers.
- Gertie: But.. but potentch what?
- Paul Drake: Potentiometers. That's a gimmick for figuring potential differential.
- Gertie: Now I know.
- Perry Mason: It's a sensitive measuring device, Gertie. Normally used as a component of large, complicated electronic equipment.
- Gertie: That helps, too.