The Bat Whispers

Police captain:
[after The Bat has committed a daring crime under the noses of the police] Get me Detective Anderson! No cheap crook is going to make a monkey out of me and get away with it!

Lizzie Allen:
[in terror] The Bat!

Cornelia van Gorder:
Now what on Earth are you doing?

Lizzie Allen:
I'm setting a bear trap for the Bat, incase he decides to come flying around here. [throws a trap on a chain out the window] And I've got the other end fastened to the bed.

Cornelia van Gorder:
Who did that?

The Caretaker:
I don't know... this house gets on my nerves, they won't let me sleep.

Lizzie Allen:
Don't trust him, caretaker means servant... Bat!

Cornelia van Gorder:
Who won't let you sleep?

The Caretaker:
The ghosts... he slams doors, and there's no one there to slam them... he opens windows, and I can't see nothing... he rolls things down the stairs, and there's no one there to make them roll... that ain't all, he whispers to me, from behind the wall. [a loud scream is heard] Listen, he's here again... stay here long enough, you'll see.

Lizzie Allen:
Let's go back to the city.

Lizzie Allen:
That new gardener, I don't like his looks, suppose'n he's the Bat?

Cornelia van Gorder:
I know he's not a gardener, because uticaria is hives, rubeola is measles, and alopecia is baldness.

Lizzie Allen:
And knowing all this, you're going to let him stay here?

Cornelia van Gorder:
I will, until I find out why my niece brought him here.

Detective Anderson:
Did you do much looking around?

Detective Jones:
Did I? That's just what I was doing when somebody socked me with a piano.

Dale Van Gorder:
We didn't mean to fool you, auntie.

Cornelia van Gorder:
You didn't... gardeners don't have manicured fingernails.

Cornelia van Gorder:
We'll get to the bottom of this. I've sent for detectives.

The Caretaker:
Detectives won't do no good. The entire police force won't do no good. [nervous laugh] They can't stop ghosts.

Dr. Venner:
You should persuade your aunt to leave this house.

Man in black mask:
Give me those blueprints!

Cornelia van Gorder:
[Anderson picks up a gun after Fleming is killed] Why that's my revolver!

Detective Anderson:
[inspects it] One shot fired.

Cornelia van Gorder:
I fired that shot myself last night.

Detective Anderson:
Nice try, Miss Van Gorder, but I'm placing your niece under arrest for the murder of Courtleigh Fleming.

Cornelia van Gorder:
You can't arrest her without a coroner's verdict, and you'll have to wait on Dr. Vanrees for that.

Detective Anderson:
Miss Van Gorder, when I find a need to make an arrest, I'll make it! And I won't wait for any coroner's verdict.

Detective Jones:
Hey, what type of joint is this?

Detective Anderson:
Who are you?

Detective Jones:
Who am I? Who do you think I am? W.T. Jones. Super-sleuth of Oakdale County.

Dale Van Gorder:
Auntie... That painting moved!

Brook:
I just saw Banker Fleming on the roof!

The Caretaker:
I don't like that doctor. One look at him would cure anybody!

Brook:
He's coming! The Bat is coming down the stairs!

The Unknown:
It's been a long chase, Mister Bat. But we've got you. We've got you red-handed!

Lizzie Allen:
[after The Bat gets trapped in her bear trap outside] I caught The Bat! I caught The Bat! I caught The Bat! I caught The Bat!

Lizzie Allen:
Aren't you going to take me up with you?

Cornelia van Gorder:
You're nothing but trouble on the ground floor, you'll be a nuisance on the roof. [goes up the stairs] If I yell you come up!

Detective Jones:
Who, me?

Cornelia van Gorder:
Yes you!

Cornelia van Gorder:
Dale, get some whiskey.

Detective Jones:
You mean to tell me you've got booze in the house?

Cornelia van Gorder:
Yes, for emergencies.

Detective Jones:
So that's why everybody's trying to break into this place.

Cornelia van Gorder:
Get the Ouija board.

Lizzie Allen:
It's got the Bible on top of it, keeping it quiet.

Dale Van Gorder:
Sorry, Auntie, the train was late. But nice Mr. Fleming was good enough to give me a ride from the station.

Cornelia van Gorder:
I should think the less you have to do with Richard Fleming, the better.

Dale Van Gorder:
Oh, but why, Auntie?

Cornelia van Gorder:
I don't like him, he leased this house to me.

The Unknown:
What I'd like to know is how did you get the dope from headquarters on this case?

Detective Anderson:
The same way I get everything, with my mind. I've got the greatest brain that ever existed.