This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
CCaller
[beeep] It's Pete. Hope you enjoyed using the cabin last week...only next time leave the trout in the refrigerator, huh, not the cupboard!
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MDMitch Donner
You're stalling Rockford; you don't want to be in the wheel-chair basketball team.
This is James Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
CCaller
[beeep] This is Esther, your father's friend. So, you're helping me move. That's it? You couldn't call? See if maybe I don't like the new place? See if maybe there's some painting to be done...?
Just what is a buff?
[looks uncomfortable] Well, it's a citizen who is fascinated by the police work. Like, you know, people who are into CB radios and broadwave shows, these people are buffs as we call them: they like to spend their time around the station getting to know the fellas, sorta hang out...
[angry] Dennis, that's not a buff, that's a groupie!
Jim Rockford, Jim Rockford...Newton Street Division, 1968, Watts Riots!
No...
No, don't tell me, don't tell me! Metro!
Jim Rockford's a private investigator, Lianne.
[looking as though she smells something bad] Oh...
It may interest you to know that Sergeant Becker rolled a code three to a major four-fifteen which could have turned out to be a one-eighty-seven.
I flunked math.
ABAnthony Boy Gagglio
Whadda they call this, a pizza?
SSyl
It ain't so bad, Tony.
ABAnthony Boy Gagglio
Ain't so bad? How can you say that. You been eatin' New York pizza all your life, you gonna make a statement like that? Back in Sheepshead Bay they throw up on crust like this. It's all cheese. Where's the tomato sauce, hunh? It ain't a pizza, it's a grilled cheese sandwich. California...
[after the shootout, she approaches Lt. Chapman] Hi, Doug. Hey, Doug, Doug. I just want to say that I think Dennis Becker handled this situation very, very well. Even if that civilian hadn't done what he did, I think that Dennis would have nailed those turkeys, with no harm to the victim. I think it was quite a collar, a feather in everyone's cap. The way I look at it, there's sure as hell enough glory to go around from this baby.
Ms. Sweeney, why don't you go home?
[Taken aback] What?
I said go home. Go back to your family. Go back to your job, whatever it is, and for God's sake, let us do ours. The police don't have many friends these days, so we have a tendency to take whatever comes our way, and that's our mistake.
Doug, I don't know what you're talking about. I just love what you guys do, that's all. I - I hate crime and criminals.
[Lt. Chapman walks away]
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
CCaller
[beeep] This is Toby. I forgot what I was calling for. Your recording is so boring... spike it with some humor, some personality...something!
I hope Angel won't say anything that's gonna get Rocky into trouble.
Hey, Angel has been in stir. He knows better than to talk without his lawyer present. And you're his lawyer. Angel knows better. He'll keep his mouth shut.
[Cut to Angel being questioned by FBI]
See, you wanna be talking to Jim Rockford and his father, Joseph. Let me spell that for you. That's Rockford. R-O-C-K-F-O-R-D. The guy's got a record, too, you know, but the State, they pardoned him. But you know the State, they just practically give them pardons away. This guy and his dad, they're dirty. You talk about marked bills and mob money. You want to find these guys right away. I wouldn't waste any time. Now, Rocky, that's the father, he's at the Palm Shores Hotel. That's in Hawaii. A lot of mob guys hang out there. I'd grab him and I wouldn't let him go. I'd grab him right away if I was you.
SAgent Steiner
You better be straight with us, Martin.
Straight? Straight? I'm so straight, my back's hurting.
SAgent Steiner
You better be. We've got a shopping list of charges to hang on somebody. You're pretty handy right now.
Who me? Charges?
SAgent Steiner
Five to ten for fraud. Five to ten for conspiracy to avoid taxes. Five to ten, obstructing justice. Twenty to life, accessory to murder.
Murder? Wait a minute. Wait a second. I wouldn't murder no one, not for a couple of Cs. Look, you want to talk to the Rockford gang. That's R-O-C-K-F-O-R-D.
[getting a haircut from Rocky] I-I'm gonna interject something here. I appreciate the fact you're cutting my hair for free, because I'm so broke, but, uh, we're not getting that layered look that we were talking about, you know. Maybe we should wash it with some of that organic shampoo, you know what I mean? Then cut it while it's wet and then give it a blow-dry.
What?
Well, that's how they do it in Beverly Hills.
Yeah, well this is how we did it in the Seabees, and we all looked like men.
[Loud traffic noise in background] Jimmy, this is Angel. Listen, I've got this new pad right over by the Hollywood Freeway and some friends are coming. Borrow your record player?
RRamirez
My banking representatives will be by at five to cancel out the debt; have the money.
Representatives? Plural?
RRamirez
That's right
I guess they travel in pairs 'cause that way they have twenty fingers and twenty toes.
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RSRalph Steel
I'm getting my gun. Both of you guys are dead.
Yeah? Well, go ahead! I'm not the kind of guy you can blow away with a threat!
Yeah, well I am!
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