- Did she have any close friends among the other girls here?
- They don't stay long enough to make friends.

4 seconds sound clip from the The Big Heat (1953) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:20:48.882 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- You still asking?

- No more. I'm telling you.

(Door closing)

- First I know Lucy's quitting is about 2:00 in the morning. She comes to me and asks to be paid off.

- Did she say why? I don't ask.

- All any of these dames owe me is a night's work, one night at a time. They come and go like flies.

- Only this fly got herself strangled.

- These things happen, Sergeant. Outside of my place, some of these babes keep pretty shady company. It figures. They know nobody cares much what happens to them.

- Did she have any close friends among the other girls here?

- They don't stay long enough to make friends.

- Where did she live?

- If I ask for an address, they lie. It's not worth the bother. They're floaters. Not much more than a suitcase full of nothing between them and the gutter.

- Hey, you know something? You ought to be doing radio commercials. How to talk a lot and say nothing.

- Why, I'd be tickled to help if I could.

- Sure.

- When I get some answers, I'll be back.

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