What was it to be, ambush?

2 seconds sound clip from the The Bat (1959) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:05:59.012 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- At night, except for a detective on guard in the house, the police and the reporters left us alone.

- And on one of those nights, without telling Lizzie or anyone else, I pursued a secret investigation of my own.

- It was in an empty room on the third floor where we kept our trunks and other things.

- Put 'em up, Bat.

- That's a bright idea to kill me in my own lab and let people think that I'm the Bat. But you had to kill me first.

- What was it to be, ambush?

- Clever as you are, you're not smart enough to do that.

- Nor were you smart enough to find the money, though you came quite close to it. But I know where it is. And when you're dead with that sign pinned on your chest, I'm going to collect it and live happily ever after.

- He destroyed himself... How true that will be.

- Goodbye, Bat.

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