- Jack Avery: You know, you'd love to tell me I'll never get away with it, but you're just not sure. I'll see you!
- Sheriff Melton: I hope so!
- [first lines]
- Narrator: On Sunday morning of June twelfth, Jack Avery, a desperate and wanted criminal, was stopped for speeding, just outside the small town of Hartsdale. Thus began the most terrifying day in the history of that town.
- [last lines]
- [Sgt. Williams has taken Jack Avery into custody. Dan Mathews and Mrs. Milton approach them]
- Dan Mathews: Well, how are ya, Avery?
- Jack Avery: I'll be out in forty-eight hours.
- Dan Mathews: Forty-eight years, you mean.
- Jack Avery: You've got nothing against me that'll stick.
- Dan Mathews: You wanna bet?
- [He turns to Mrs. Melton]
- Dan Mathews: I told Fred not to call us; we'd call him. Come on.
- [Mathews and Mrs. Melton walk toward the waiting helicopter]