- Carl Kolchak: As the great Louis Pasteur once said, "Any schmoe can invent a rabies vaccine - but when will we find a cure for stupidity?"
- Receptionist: Here you are, Mr. Kolchak.
- Carl Kolchak: Thank you very much. Anybody important here today?
- Receptionist: No, just a bunch of reporters.
- Carl Kolchak: [narrating] They were loading unmarked boxes from an unmarked truck - but for me, everything had "double cross" written all over it.
- [Kolchak and Elkhorn are assembling X-rays from the hospital, trying to build a picture of Matchemonedo, as Kolchak finds one that doesn'r belong]
- Carl Kolchak: That's a vertebrae - what's that doing here?