T.C.[Pulls Magnum out of trouble and a bullet cracks the windshield] Some things never change.
Played by Denise Nicholas
Magnum, P.I. · 180 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Magnum, P.I.: in 26 of its 180 quotes
Most scenes with: Thomas Magnum (13), Rick (11), Jonathan Higgins (9)
Lines by T.C 3
T.C.T.C.[Looks at the screen] Did it ever occur to you that boy can not count past one?
S1 E9 Missing in Action
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T.C.[to Magnum] I knew this investigative business was easy, else you wouldn't be in it.
S2 E22 Three Minus Two
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Scenes with T.C 23
Stop. Whatever you are doing, stop it.
T.C.Hi, Higgins.
Don't "Hi, Higgins" me. Just get you and your juvenile delinquents out of here.
T.C.Whoa! What's with this Abbott and Costello routine, 'You owe me 50, I'll loan you 10'? Forget it!
Oh, okay! Thanks, I owe you one! [speeds off in the Ferrari]
S1 E9 Missing in Action
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T.C.Um, T.M., did you come up with this plan all by your lonesome?
Yeah. What's the matter?
T.C.I don't know. Well, I don't know yet. I just keep remembering the plan you had to get all the POW's out of Cambodia.
T.C., there is no comparison between that plan and this one.
T.C.I hope not. I don't need any more scars.
S2 E4 From Moscow to Maui
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T.C.You expect me to hop over all 13 of these islands?
That's the name of your service, isn't it? Island Hoppers.
T.C.Yeah, I'm thinking about changing it to Magnum's Taxi Service!
[about Rick's black eye] So who was it Rick?
D'you think it needs more wine?
Rick, come on, who was it?
Catherine.
...Catherine who?
[desperately trying to change the subject] T.C., what about the peppers?
Rick!
I don't know, they don't have a last name.
T.C.Who doesn't have a last name?
[long pause]: Nuns.
[T.C. and Magnum burst out laughing]
W-well what's so funny?!
T.C.You mean to tell me, a NUN gave you that shiner?
She thought I was trying to steal her car!
[T.C. and Magnum laugh even harder]
Hey, she was a big Nun!
He drove Robin's Ferrari over a cliff?
T.C.Well, I'm sure he didn't do it on purpose!
One can never be sure with Magnum. Well, he'd better survive if he knows what's good for him.
S2 E15 Try to Remember
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[philosophizing about Magnum's potential death] I know, however desolated I would be, I would also experience a certain catharsis that is singularly missing.
T.C.Ahh... run that by me again, Higgi-baby. Only this time in English.
S2 E18 Texas Lightning
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I'm a peach of a detective.
T.C.[To Rick]I can't believe you bought that. He ain't that good.
S3 E7 Flashback
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[after failing to hit the serve over the net] I'm sorry Rick. I'm a little rusty on the serve. I just gotta get it up a little more, but when I do, it'll be a monster.
T.C.Not with that follow through.
What's wrong with it?
T.C.You need more extension.
I do?
T.C.Mmm-Hmm
Try and keep this one on the court will you? We're running out of balls!
OK, this one will be in Rick, I promise. I will be just perfect. [starts his serve]
Magnum! [Magnum sends the ball straight over the fence]
S3 E10 Mixed Doubles
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T.C.Somewhere, somehow, I'm going to get you for this. Higgie baby, I can't wait until this is over.
T.C., baby, it ain't over until it's over.
S3 E10 Mixed Doubles
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[after being dazzled by Bridget's skills with gambling odds] I think I'm in love.
T.C.[checks watch] Ten minutes to ten, I wondered how long it'd take you to fall in love today.
S3 E11 Almost Home
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I saw in this movie once where they bumped off this guy for his money. They took a lawn mower, an electric lawn mower, and threw it right in the bathtub. Bzzzzzzzzzz! It fried him just like that! You better take showers.
Guys!
T.C.Come to think of it, you better stay out of the kitchen too, all sorts of things can happen in there - Gas, poisoning, garbage disposals.
Garbage disposals??
S3 E13 Of Sound Mind
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