- [Holly and Diane are at the bar of a private investigators' convention]
- Diane Ritterbush: Are you competition or a private eye?
- Holly Marshall: I'm both, honey.
- [Floyd is rumored to have recovered $200,000 from a robbery and kept the money for himself]
- Holly Marshall: You know whoever did this doesn't know you very well, Floyd. If you had the money, you wouldn't be dumb enough to leave it in your hotel room, would you?
- [Gentry is annoyed by all the "help" he's receiving while trying to solve a murder at a private investigator's convention]
- Will Gentry: Now look, why don't you all go to sleep and just *dream* that you're solving this murder?
- George Woolery: If the money Landers stole isn't found, my son will never be cleared.
- Michael Shayne: What makes you so sure he stole it?
- George Woolery: I know he did. If you can locate that money; prove Landers was the thief, I'd give you the $35,000.
- Michael Shayne: My fees aren't quite that high.
- Bliss Joy: You know, it's a shame to let those two airline tickets go to waste.
- Michael Shayne: You're interest in me is purely spiritual, I'm sure.
- Bliss Joy: The minute I saw you, there was something. We must have known each other before in another life.
- Michael Shayne: I'm sure I would have remembered.
- Bliss Joy: Do you have to go?
- Michael Shayne: Oh, I'll be back. In the meantime, you just sit tight and don't talk to strangers. You see, other people may be looking for that money... and they won't all be as spiritual as I am.