- Sgt. Rockwell: You had it figured, huh?
- Stephen Fontaine: Well, not exactly. I didn't know who the lucky man would be. I thought whoever it was would be wearing a ready-made suit off of a basement rack, his heels would be run down. Be the kind of man who was living on the installment plan. Doesn't really own anything, just pieces of things. A piece of a cheap car, a piece of an ice box, a piece of a bedroom set. And all the stuff he has pieces of is already falling to pieces. But he'll keep paying on it and paying on it, month after month because that's the kind of man he is. Just a piece of a man.
- [afterword]
- Alfred Hitchcock: [Hitchcock is still struggling to free himself and then the penny drops. He lifts the table and removes the cuff from the bottom of the leg] At least I can get home now. I hope to have my hand free next time you see me. If I do, we should be able to present another story. Why not tune in and see? Good night.
- [continues to try freeing the cuff]
- [introduction]
- Alfred Hitchcock: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and television fans all over, uh, the living room floor. Tonight's drama is called "The Manacled" and features a pair of these attractive and useful charm bracelets.
- [Hitchcock holds up a pair of open handcuffs]
- Alfred Hitchcock: These, of course, are stage handcuffs especially made so that one can easily get out.
- [cuffs one of his wrists and opens it again]
- Alfred Hitchcock: Of course, as you may know, these little trinkets are not only used to cuff hands, they work very well on legs. Regardez.
- [Cuffs one of his wrists and bends to cuff the other to a table leg]
- Alfred Hitchcock: [Hitchcock is now struggling to uncuff himself]
- Alfred Hitchcock: While I'm getting out of this, perhaps we better begin our play. Ladies and gentlemen, "The Manacled."
- [first lines]
- Train Station Announcer: [off screen] Announcing the departure of northbound train 146 for Bakersfield, Tulare, Fresno, Merced, Martinez, Richmond, Berkeley and Oakland. Now boarding on track number three.