Murder, She Wrote, Season 1

Horatioː Horatio Baldwin presents J.B. Fletcher's Mansion of Murder and Mayhem! A panoply of blood and gore! Chills and thrills! Screaming Mimis in three octavesǃ The kids will love it!

Jessicaː The kids?

Horatioː Who do you think pays to see this stuff? Don't you go to the movies?

Jessicaː When Cary Grant bowed out, so did I.

Horatio:
Violence! That's what pays, Mrs. Fletcher. That's money in the bank.

Jessica:
No, that's disgraceful!

Horatio:
Come, come, dear lady. Why this moral outrage? I read your books. We're in the same business.

Jessica:
No, Mr. Baldwin. I write for people who read. You apparently stage your bloodbaths for tots who have not yet learned to differentiate the difference between your sordid charades and the real world. There's quite a difference.

Horatio:
I'm not used to being refused.

Jessica:
They do say a new experience broadens the mind.