- Manfred Carstairs: How is my dear brother?
- Barlow: At death's door, sir. I doubt if he'll last the night.
- Manfred Carstairs: Oh... that's too bad.
- Cyrus Carstairs: Barlow, how would you like to be a wealthy man?
- Barlow: I have no objections, sir.
- Cyrus Carstairs: You have all the qualifications for inherited wealth. Spineless... slavish to superiors... arrogant to inferiors. My will states the value I have placed on your years of faithful service: two cents.
- Andrew Warfield: Well, he put his will on a TV cassette.
- Manfred Carstairs: Hm!
- Andrew Warfield: He wanted to tell us what was in it personally.
- Claudette: Why, there's no television set in this house!
- Barlow: Oh, yes there is, Miss Claudette
- [holds up keys]
- Aunt Tess: Why was it kept locked?
- Barlow: He didn't want the servants wasting time watching it.
- Manfred Carstairs: Oh, but you had the key, hm?
- [chuckles]
- Manfred Carstairs: Oh, your easy days are over, Barlow.
- Manfred Carstairs: [watching Cyrus present his will on video tape] Doesn't he look wonderful? All things considered, a most handsome man.
- Manfred Carstairs: How are you feeling Cyrus? Are you in pain?
- Cyrus Carstairs: Yes. And it's grown more acute since you've entered the room.
- Cyrus Carstairs: I had the safe designed with you in mind: burglar proof.
- Manfred Carstairs: That's cruel, Cyrus.
- Cyrus Carstairs: I had a terrible time deciding which one of you should get my money. I hate you all so much...
- Boatman: No one around here would be fool enough to set foot on Lafitte island and maybe run into the creature.
- Jaime Sommers: Creature? What creature?
- Boatman: Well, most think it is just a trick of old Cyrus to scare trespassers away.
- [laughs nervously]
- Jaime Sommers: What do the rest say?
- Boatman: [crosses himself] Unholy things happened in the old days when the Lafitte Pirates ruled the swamp...
- [nervously]
- Boatman: Me, I don't believe a word of it.
- Jaime Sommers: [sarcastically] That's encouraging.
- Manfred Carstairs: [Jaime is posing as cousin Tracy] Yes, well, I'm delighted to see you again my dear, but you've changed... almost too much. Especially your eyes. There's none of the Carstairs look about them. Strange...
- Oscar Goldman: [on CB in hotel room] Jaime! How's it going?
- Jaime Sommers: [on walkie talkie at Lafitte Island] Well, pretty bad. There's already been an attempt on my life.
- Oscar Goldman: Listen, if it's that dangerous, you'd better get out of there.
- Jaime Sommers: How? The water around this island is filled with snakes and alligators and this house is filling up with Carstairs.
- Aunt Tess: How sweet of dear Cyrus to leave everything to me. If he'd said, eh, the most beautiful, I would have known he meant Claudette. She's really quite pretty in a tawdrey sort of way... But it took more than the gaudy to sway dear Cyrus.
- Cyrus Carstairs: [on video tape] Oh, eh Warfield is allowed in the hunt too, because he has proven over so many years that he can't do anything right anyway.
- Barlow: Something wrong, miss?
- Jaime Sommers: Well, Aunt Claudette just disappeared.
- Barlow: Oh, she's been doing that for years, miss. The first time was when she married the Polish Count. And then she just dropped out of sight when she met the Buenes Aires gentleman.
- Jaime Sommers: No, no, no, she just disappeared from that room.
- Barlow: Hm. Was there a gentleman with her?
- Manfred Carstairs: What would you want if we found that box together?
- Jaime Sommers: [thinks for a moment] There is an envelope that's probably just among his personal papers. You may have all the rest.
- Manfred Carstairs: What's so valuable about that envelope?
- Jaime Sommers: I am a philatelist.
- Manfred Carstairs: Philato-what?
- Jaime Sommers: A stamp collector.
- Oscar Goldman: [showing Jaime slides of the infamous Carstairs family members] And this is Claudette - - married six times, divorced twice, widowed four times.
- Jaime Sommers: [shocked] FOUR TIMES? How'd they die?
- Oscar Goldman: [with a grim smile] Probably from overdoses of CLAUDETTE.