- Charlie Garrett: Then why would he have moved to Coral City in the first place? And then why would he have stayed all those years?
- Police Chief Thurman Gillis: Pardon me. Did it ever occur to you that he might have just plain liked the place?
- Charlie Garrett: No, not really.
- Reporter on TV: As of this evening, Dallas police still have not issued a statement about the possible motive of nightclub owner Jack Ruby who killed Mr. Oswald earlier today on national TV. Eyewitnesses, Secret Service officials and police continue to disagree on the number of shots fired in Dealey Plaza two days ago in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. However, it is believed that at least two bullets were fired from the upper story window in the Texas Book Depository. Mr. Oswald was an employee on the Book Depository. A nine-millimeter rifle with a telescopic sight is believed to be the weapon used by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was being transferred to another jail when Ruby, apparently known to local police, pushed past reporters and law officers and fired the shot that proved fatal to Oswald.
- Laura Callan: I guess my father turned out to be only human. But then, so did I.
- Charlie Garrett: Yeah, except Bernie wasn't a murderer.
- [last lines]
- Jessica Fletcher: No, it wasn't. I assume this is an apology?
- Charlie Garrett: Well, yeah, sort of. I guess the thing I'm really kicking myself about is, I should have recognized what was in those photos the first time I saw 'em. Then I could have sold them to Angelini, retired to a tropical island, and none of this ever would have happened.
- Jessica Fletcher: Charlie, I'm not all that sure that you would have done it then, or now.
- Charlie Garrett: Maybe. Maybe not. I guess we're just gonna have to add that to all the other things we'll never know about this mess.