- [introduction]
- Narrator: [With the chief detective and another man looking on, Hitchcock is standing alone in a police lineup, wearing a checked beret and leather jacket with no tie] This is a police lineup. Here desperate criminals who have been brought to bay appear before the detective force and are questioned by the chief detective. Listen.
- Chief Detective: Take your hat off.
- [Hitchcock takes off his beret]
- Chief Detective: Name: Hitchcock comma Alfred. Height: five foot six. Weight: prisoner refuses to make a statement. Here's his record. 1940, picked up on "Suspicion." 1942, "Spellbound." 1944, "Notorious." 1955, "Rear Window." 1956, "The Man Who Knew Too Much."
- [Camera cuts to a close-up of a scowling Hitchcock]
- Chief Detective: Anything to say, Hitchcock?
- Alfred Hitchcock: [Speaking in a working-class accent] Well, sir, I admit it ain't a good record. But I'm trying to do better.
- Chief Detective: Better? You call this latest charge "doing better"? Appearing on television!
- Alfred Hitchcock: I'm sorry, sir. But my family was hungry.
- Chief Detective: Now, take him away.
- Alfred Hitchcock: Wait a minute, sir. You've got the wrong man. Don't you want to see a sample of me work?
- Narrator: Okay, here's what we found on him when we picked him up.
- [afterword]
- Alfred Hitchcock: [Dressed back in his usual tie and suit, Hitchcock addresses the audience somberly] Occasionally, in our series, we touch on a subject that is far too real to be made the butt of my usual flippant remarks. Tonight's story of juvenile delinquency is certainly a case in point. And we have presented it with a hope that it might, in some small way, throw a little light on what has become a serious national problem.
- [last lines]
- Skinner #21: You picked a good one for your first time, didn't you, kid?
- Chief of Detectives: [off-screen] Number 17, take the circle, please.
- [first lines]
- Kelly: Hold it, kid!