- Officer George Frankly: There once was a bank named Last National, which installed an alarm, which was rational. It went off with a roar, people ran out the door, what a bad place to trust with your cash and all.
- Officer George Frankly: A disaster that won't be forgotten was a bank and some eggs that were rotten. The Average Bank smell made the customers yell and stuff up their noses with cotton.
- Officer George Frankly: Farmer's Bank is a place with a sprinkler. It'll put out a fire in a twinkler. But it got people wet, made them fume, made them fret, and withdraw all their cash in a winkler.
- Officer George Frankly: The L.A. Savings and Trust is a building all covered with rust. Those fools who were in it lost dough in a minute, and all the depositors cussed.
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- Narrator: Raymond Sticker was tried and convicted of a 313.13: Vandalizing a bank that was bigger than a bread box, and a 719.5: Trying to blow up a bank so it will be smaller than a bread box. During the trial held in and for the County of Los Angeles, the defendant stated:
- Raymond Sticker: I gave you the clues all in rhyme. I thought that idea sublime. But you used clever math to cross up my path. And now, I will have to do time.
- Officer George Frankly: [voiceover] It was Monday, 9:43 am, and the Cubs had just won a pair from the Dodgers, the Rams had lost in Orange County, and I got some new socks from Banana Republic. But something was missing. My partner Kate Monday, who works the day watch out of Mathnet, was laid up with a bad knee. She'd torn some ligaments in it, and her leg was in a cast. She was at home recuperating. My name is Frankly. I'm a mathematician. A lonely mathematician.