Quotes
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Lester Hodges : Mother always wanted me to follow in the footsteps, but I guess nobody in the family made my kind of footsteps.
Harry Orwell : Or you would have made plaster casts of them.
Lester Hodges : That's very clever!
Mrs. Hodges : Is it? What?
Lester Hodges : It's an inside joke, mother.
Mrs. Hodges : Well, I think it's very tasteless of you to be making jokes when that girl is lying dead in Los Angeles.
Lester Hodges : Well, it wasn't my joke, mother.
[indicates with a wave a suddenly abashed Harry]
Harry Orwell : Well, I apologize for being callous.
Mrs. Hodges : Well, you're a detective, Mr. Orwell. You can hardly help becoming so.