Kolchak: The Night Stalker quotes

Carl Kolchak

They booked me for murder just like I thought they would, but then after 12 hours they let me go. They never said why, but while I was sitting in Lt. Matteo's office waiting for execution, I happened to see a coroner's report on Catherine Rawlins. I quote the coroner: "The tissue structure of the individual appeared to be that of a female species human who had been dead at least three years. This is a medical conundrum for which I have no explanation." Three years!

Is this that important to you?

Carl Kolchak

Oh, very.

Okay. But next time, don't try to con me. Just lay it on me.

Ron Updyke

I think I'm getting sick.

Tony Vincenzo

Well, how about all those megavitamins you've been taking, and the massive doses of Vitamin C?

Ron Updyke

They're making me sick.

Carl Kolchak

Now, wait just one minute. If you put me someplace against my will and something happens to me, you're gonna have to write a new chapter in the Maritime Code, or my editor's name is not Antonio Vincenzo!

Your editor... Release him - not here, outside!

Carl Kolchak

What happened to Mason?

Isn't it obvious? The guy was smoking in bed.

Carl Kolchak

I didn't see any ashtrays.

That's his problem.

Carl Kolchak

Mrs. Sherman, do you remember me? I was with Sergeant Mayer.

Well, he certainly takes a dim view of you.

Carl Kolchak

Well, he's a little dimwitted anyway.

Carl Kolchak

Now, do you know anything about these kinds of things?

Oh, well, it's a - it's, uh, a malicious and lost spirit of the dead person who's, uh, trying to wear down a living human being and take over his body - someone he envies, and... what spirit would envy you?

Tony Vincenzo

When you get back to the swindle and fraud stories, write about how you're employed here - which is one of the biggest swindles in memory!

Should your paths cross that of a lying reporter, don't tell him anything, particularly about any robberies you may have seen. He will quote you, then mysteriously police will arrive at your door.

Carl Kolchak

The old cliche that politics makes strange bedfellows is only too true. At one time or another, various and sundry politicians have found themselves - when it proved expedient, of course - sharing a blanket with the military, organized crime, disgruntled, gun-toting dairy farmers, the church, famous athletes, the comedians; the list is endless. But there was a senatorial race not so long ago right here in Illinois where the strangest bedfellow of all was found under the sheets. The strangest... and certainly the most terrifying.

Carl Kolchak

Political campaigns are generally littered with pollsters and rhetoric - but this one was littered with corpses.

Palmer, you are a crook.

Oh, now, Steve, why don't you save those colorful descriptives for the opposition, huh?

Don't you try to con me. I went back to see your old constituency in Dantonville. Oh, you didn't miss a trick, did you? Bribery, extortion, misappropriation of funds.

Those accusations are made all the time in politics, especially when you win elections.

You didn't win that election. You stole it. You bought it with laundered money. But you're not gonna buy the state Senate, not with me as your bag boy.

I like the way you've run the campaign, Steve. I'm going on to bigger things. I'd like you with me, but if you're determined to quit...

You don't seem to get the picture, Bob. I'm not just quitting. I'm blowing the whistle.

That would be a mistake. We better talk about it.

Sure. I'll talk about it, to the D.A.

I can't let you do that.

You can't stop me.

Carl Kolchak

What don't you like about this hat?

Tony Vincenzo

What's under it.

Carl Kolchak

The people's candidate. Fearless, independent and energetic. Why can't the people's candidate be like the rest of us - timid, insecure and lazy?

Carl Kolchak

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "The rich are different than you and me." They sure are. They got more money. But there wasn't enough money in the world to save some of the members of Chicago's upper crust from a fiendish force so dark, it can only be called diabolic.