- Cecelia Bradley: Who are you, or who do you think you are ?
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: At the moment, I'm a fugitive from an autopsy.
- Insp. Farraday: I couldn't find your name on the passenger list.
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: No, no, I'm using my maiden name.
- Insp. Farraday: Where have you been "
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: Trying to keep myself out of the electric chair.
- Insp. Farraday: No luck, huh ?
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: [Blackie talking to Farrada] You'll be pounding the beat so far out of town you'll have to send smoke signals to report in.,
- Insp. Farraday: [Farraday talking to Blackie] You'd look much better in the police lineup than in the obituary column.
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: If we don't find Miss Howard he may be able to convict us of a murder we didn't commit. Electrocutuion is so permanent.
- Cecelia Bradley: You thrive on this sort of excitement, don't you?
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: Well, it's better than vegetating.
- Cecelia Bradley: Couldn't anyone ever make you live like other people do?
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: You mean a normal life with a social security number and a bank book?
- [Chuckles]
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: I'm afraid not.
- Cecelia Bradley: Not anyone?
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: Unh-unh.
- Cecelia Bradley: Why?
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: Because she'd probably want to wait up for me nights with a light burning in the window.
- Cecelia Bradley: Is that bad?
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: Yes. I'm not in the habit of entering a house until all the lights are out.
- Cecelia Bradley: Why do those men want to kill you?
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: I don't think they like me.
- Marilyn Howard: Please believe me, I'm telling you the truth
- Horatio 'Boston Blackie' Black: I could use a bit of the truth.
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