- [first lines]
- [in a hotel room with a girl dancing to music]
- Eddie Lorca: Oh, get down, baby!
- [phone rings]
- Eddie Lorca: Turn that down, will you?
- Person on Tape: [voice on tape] Good morning, Mr. Phelps. A hired killer, Eddie Lorca, will arrive in this city on Transamerica flight Number One on Friday. Lorca has a contract with the most powerful underworld leader in this part of the United States, a man we know only by his code name, Scorpio. Lorca's mission is to kill someone. We do not know whom he will kill or where, when or how he will do it. Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to prevent the murder and discover the identity of Scorpio. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.
- [last lines]
- James Phelps: Alfred E. Chambers... Scorpio.
- Paris: [dials a phone] Get me an ambulance... and the police. Send them to this address, 1223 Rim View.
- Dana Lambert: At least we have him where we can keep our finger on him.
- James Phelps: Now all we have to do is find out whom he's going to kill... and when and where and how.