- The Green Hornet: Okay, there's only one person that can help me now.
- D.A. Frank Scanlon: Who?
- The Green Hornet: The Green Hornet.
- Kato: You're in worse trouble now. Where do we start?
- The Green Hornet: First I have to find out how it was done. The secret must be in that gun. I should have examined it immediately.
- Kato: You can't walk into the police station and take it.
- The Green Hornet: No, but I'll tell you who can.
- [cut to police front desk]
- Desk Sergeant: The Green Hornet!
- The Green Hornet: If there was a clip, it wasn't in the gun, it wasn't listed on the evidence ticket.
- Kato: Dale Hyde took the gun away from you right after it fired.
- The Green Hornet: He also gave it to me.
- [scoffs]
- The Green Hornet: I can't believe Dale would do something like that.
- Kato: He's still the number one suspect.
- The Green Hornet: Or somebody's trying to make it look that way. Let's find out Kato.
- Lenore Case: [Casey enters the publisher's office] Mr Hyde, this is a disgrace.
- [reading copy]
- Lenore Case: "The cold-blooded killing took place in the Sentinel publisher's living room as he fired a fatal shot at the unarmed Rech, who had come to the party to patch up differences with his former employer." You can't put this in the Sentinel.
- Dale Hyde: You think I want to print this story?
- Lenore Case: Then don't!
- Dale Hyde: We've got to. This is the toughest story I've ever had to write, but it contains the facts as they happened.
- Lenore Case: But you make it a foregone conclusion that Mr Reid is guilty even before he has a trial.
- [reading copy]
- Lenore Case: "Then in desperate escape, Reid attacked the DA Scanlon and fled under a hail of police bullets." You're using his own newspaper to convict him.
- Dale Hyde: You think I've forgotten what I owe Britt Reid for giving me a start again? Do you think I like running this story?
- Lenore Case: Yes, I do. I think you're using your position as temporary publisher to let go of your true feelings. I think you hate Mr Reid or you wouldn't be doing this. And you hate him because your paper couldn't compete with the Sentinel, and that's why it went under.
- Dale Hyde: If there was a shred of mitigating evidence, I'd print it in ten point red type, but there isn't. You say the story is rough because of your feeling for Mr Reid, but wait till you see how the tabloids treat it. These are the facts pure and simple, and we've got to put them in the Sentinel.
- Lenore Case: This is going to put him in the electric chair. Couldn't you bury the story somewhere in the back pages?
- Dale Hyde: Let me have it.
- [takes the copy from Casey]
- Dale Hyde: I uh... I'll try and tone it down.
- D.A. Frank Scanlon: You're job is to bring a man in for trial. Until he's been tried and found guilty, I don't think it's very wise to just flatly say that he killed a man.
- Police Lieutenant: Now look, Frank, now when you face these guys, they're in a courtroom handcuffed and guarded by my men. When we face them out on the street, we have no idea whether they have an intent to kill or not.
- The Green Hornet: I would have put the facts on page one, but there are a number of ways of presenting the facts. Hyde's was is to try the suspect in newsprint. That way it's impossible to get an unbiased jury.