- Mel Cooley: You're doing a show in prison?
- Sally Rogers: Yeah, how 'bout that? Hundreds of men and not one of them can get away.
- Rob Petrie: [about Lyle] As a mater of fact, when we first met the guy, he was a holdup man.
- Mel Cooley: H-how did you know he was a holdup man?
- Rob Petrie: He held us up.
- [Rob describes Lyle Delp's role in prison]
- Mel Cooley: You... you mean he's a convict?
- Buddy Sorrell: Boy, if he ain't, he got the worst taste in clothes I ever saw.
- Mel Cooley: You mean you actually became friends with a man who held you up?
- Rob Petrie: Yeah, we've been writing to him in prison for years.
- Sally Rogers: Yeah, he's sort of a pen pal.
- [Having climbed into the elevator shaft, Rob looks for anything that might help him get them all out of their stuck elevator, including messages on the walls]
- Rob Petrie: Here's something. "In nineteen hundred and thirty-six, John Freeny laid these bricks. I wanna wish you lots of luck, because if you're reading this you're stuck."