- Judge Kinsella: On your last appearance before me, Mr. Sanderson, it was my unpleasant duty to sentence you to death in the electric chair. Now, the duty I have before me now is in some respects even more unpleasant. I have no quarrel with the principle of law involved, it's a good and wise application of our constitutional guarantees, but in this case, it results in turning loose upon society a degraded and immoral person.
- Judge Kinsella: [he continues] There's no doubt that in the first half of the twentieth century, we - and I mean the press and the public as well as the courts - had looked the other way as our police, in the name of law and order, showed a patent disregard for individual liberties as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. But it seems now that the pendulum is swinging a little too far the other way.
- [sighs heavily]
- Judge Kinsella: Well there is hope; gravity will bring it to rest at some point where the interests of both individual liberty and the community as a whole are best served. Motion is granted.
- Adele Matthews: There's no reason to be jealous.
- Capt. Frank Matthews: I'm not jealous.
- Adele Matthews: Then what do you call it?
- Capt. Frank Matthews: I won't have you making a damn monkey out of me.
- Adele Matthews: So, it's your vanity.
- Capt. Frank Matthews: If you call objecting to my wife having relations with her ex-lovers, God
- [she slaps his face; he slaps her back]
- Capt. Frank Matthews: knows how many, vanity, then it's my vanity.
- Adele Matthews: [embracing him] I love you. I love you. Really, I do.
- [they fall on the bed]
- Adele Matthews: .
- Capt. Frank Matthews: Adele...
- Adele Matthews: Yes...
- Capt. Frank Matthews: You really ought to quit that job.
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