- Alex: [to Lloyd] Permit me my element of surprise, Lloyd. In a mystery, the audience should never know what's coming next.
- Alex: It's essential they stay here, all of them. If even one of them walks out, it won't work.
- Frank Heller: It may not work anyway.
- Alex: You still think this is a mistake, don't you?
- Frank Heller: Like I said before, Mr. Dennison; this is your show. I'm just here to watch.
- Walter: [referring to Alex] Ah, he's being mysterious. Well, it's the playwright's prerogative... and it's the producer's prerogative to have a sweet roll.
- Lloyd: Now I get it. Don't you see what he's doing?
- Leo: Now that you mention it... no.
- Lloyd: Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2, a play within a play to catch his father's killer: "I have heard that guilty creatures sitting at a play, have by the very cunning of the scene, been struck so to the soul that presently they have proclaimed their malefactions."
- Karen: "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king." Right?
- Walter: What are you talking about? Monica wasn't murdered. She committed suicide. And to suggest that one of us is involved...
- Alex: It isn't a suggestion; it's a statement of fact.
- Karen: They investigated, the police...
- Alex: The police were wrong.
- Walter: Alex! We all know you suffered a terrible loss. We understand your grief. But what you're doing here, it won't change anything. It won't bring her back.
- Alex: Then you've nothing to lose by indulging me.