- Columbo: [entering Kay's office] That's a very impressive desk, Ma'am. You can run the world from a desk like that.
- Kay Freestone: The world doesn't count - just the West coast.
- Dubbing Chief: [to Columbo] If there's one thing worse than a television lady who thinks she knows everything, it's a television lady who knows everything.
- Kay Freestone: It's very odd. They say there's a great sense of relief that comes when something like this is over. I don't feel that at all. Quite the opposite.
- Walter Mearhead: [watches the changed reel, sees a character shoot himself in the head, turns away in disgust] HOW LONG are they gonna keep putting stuff like that on television?
- Columbo: I took a trip a few years ago. Took Mrs. Columbo back to the house where I grew up. Looked all shrunk. I had five brothers and one sister, Miss Freestone, and that was really terrific. There was always someone around for company. We were never lonely.
- Columbo: [to Kay] Interesting, isn't it, how you can work these small things out if you just think about it... like you got a tiny voice whisperin' right in your ear trying to tell you who did it?
- Kay Freestone: Are you taking anything?
- Valerie Kirk: Oh God, I look like a junkie, is that it? I've had NO booze, NO pills, NO sniff, and NO smokes... except for these.
- [holds up cigarette]
- Valerie Kirk: [after Kay finds pill bottles in Valerie's knitting bag] Please, give us a hug.
- Kay Freestone: [clutches pill bottles] No more hugs, we're fresh out of hugs.