- [first lines]
- Billy Simms: I don't care that she's a dipso with 33 cats and hasn't bathed in four months. What I wanna read about is she's a sweet old widowed grandmother whose greedy landlord kicked her out.
- [last lines]
- Haskell Drake: I have been offered a big overseas assignment in Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok...
- Jessica Fletcher: Oh.
- Haskell Drake: ...by Newmonth, no less.
- Jessica Fletcher: Haskell, that's marvelous. When?
- Haskell Drake: Oh, well, um, a-as soon as you hand me my trousers. And by the way, you can tag along if you want to. I figure that, uh, a couple of years of, uh, hard work, who knows, you may turn into a half-decent newspaperman.