[to thug who had just denied a woman Rockford was looking for was in his car] Either she was in this car, or you both wear the same perfume, Mary.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[at Rocky's house sifting through shoe boxes full of Jim's receipts] Look Angel, I've got problems of my own. I've got a tax mess here that's so bad I'm gonna have to spend three days up at Adriana's place at Arrow Head just trying to sort it out... how are you doing for April and May, Dad?
ADAdrianna Danielli
Jim I hope you don't mind my saying, but I think this is symptomatic of the whole problem! Why are these receipts stored here in the first place?
Well, do you wanna try living in a house trailer and running a business out of it too?
ADAdrianna Danielli
Which you can't claim, by the way.
Alice Faye... I'm thinking of all them pictures and records I collected back in the 40s. That's it! Alice Faye! [runs off]
Alice Faye...? April and May...?
Jimmy! Open up! [Bangs on door]
[Frustrated] Angel, if you're up here about Buster Hutchins and his roadway church...
No, no,no. It's bad, Jimmy, it's bad. It's like a nightmare. I've been through living hell. I was at your trailer, y'know, these two guys...
No, I don't know! Why were you in my trailer?
I was returning your movie camera, y'know Rocky gave me the key and I was cleaning the lens off when these two guys walk in - Jimmy, one of them looked like a cross between George Hamilton and Dracula. I told him: Buddy, take it out in the street...
You told them where I was, didn't you, Angel!
Yea, but I tried to hang tough Jimmy, but they worked me over for a couple of hours, they even shocked me with a 110-volt line!
Yea right! How long did you hold out? Did you make 15 seconds?
Jimmy!
Angel, the only reason you came up here is because you know that if I somehow make it out of here alive, I would come after you with a sickle!
That's the thanks I get for my loyalty? After risking my neck? After driving through the worst terrain in southern California, with a severe head wound, and a gas station attendant that hardly knew where the cabin was?
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
CCaller
[beeep] Mr. Rockford, you know what to do if you attacked and killed? Ask for Albert Kimsi at grand opening of Happy Dawn School of Secret Arts. Win three lessons!
AGAnthony Gagglio
What is it? What is it? I'll tell you what it is. Guys like you, you're are all over the place, eating your stinkin' cheeseburgers, cloggin' up the streets on your stupid, lousy Sunday drives. Football players, milk drinkers, funny boys. Guys like you, Rockford, and guys like me, we can't live here together. You make this planet a toilet for me to live in.
GMrs. Gagglio
Oh, now what do you want on the sandwich?
AGAnthony Gagglio
I don't want to hear no more about sandwiches, peppers, and eating! That's all this family is - it's one big, gigantic digestive tract. It's like an obsession.
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
FBFlorence Boyle
[beep] Jim, this is Florence Boyle. You worked for my husband last month in Glendale. You were so helpful then, and, well, I have a problem of my own I'd like to discuss... confidentially of course...
[grabs Angel by the collar] Angel, you're driving me crazy, you understand? I'm going crazy and I can't take it anymore!
Jimmy...
Years and years and years! I'm going out of my mind! Your stu-pid, ri-diculous lies and ideas and games year after year!
[croaks] ... give me my windpipe...
[lets go, looks at his hands; they're shaking] Look at me! Look at me! Look at me! [collapses against fence in hopelessness]
[timidly] Jimmy...
Just don't say anything! Just don't-say-anything!
Hey Jimmy...
What?
I'm sorry...
[Jim raises his head and looks at him in disbelief]
Stick of gum?
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
JMJoe Myers
[beeep] Jim, Joe Myers of Crowell, Finch and Merriweather. We're going to court tomorrow on that Penrose fraud case, but the steno misplaced your two-hundred-page deposition. Could you come down tonight and give it again?
[Jim and Angel are trying to figure out why all these people are after them, killed Kramer, and didn't take Rocky's Bronkbuster jeans] Or, no, maybe... maybe it's because they already knew everything about them.
Huh?
Ah.
What?
[Takes a bite of his taco] Mmm-hmm...
[Jim chews, smiles, and winks at Angel]
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
CMiss Collins
[beeep] Mr. Rockford, Miss Collins for the Bureau of Licenses. We got your renewal for the extended deadline, but not your check. I'm sorry, but at midnight you're no longer licensed as an investigator.
[rummaging around in the stuff in the back of the truck that's going to the Goodwill] If you don't help that boy's daddy, I'm gonna be mad at you!
Yeah, well life's full of bitter disappointments, Dad! I have a question for you. What are you doing poking around in there again?
Well, I gotta question for you too! Where did this toaster come from?
[becomes sheepish] That toaster...? Oh... that's the one you gave me for Christmas...
[indignant] Yeah! Thirty-four dollars and seventy-five cents!
[miffed he marches back to the trailer with the toaster]
[defensively] Well it got in by mistake! How was... well, I can't... those things happen!
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
DDenny
Jim, Denny from Denny's Pest Blasters. Got a great deal for ya. We'll rub out your rodents at a tremendously low cost, so call us. We're in the Yellow Pages and we mean business.
HJHarold Jack Coombs
[to Richie, while strong-arming him] I could buy you every pot the Hittites ever made; and the potholders to go with them.
Does he have any other relatives around here?
LLucy
No
Oh!
LLucy
Maybe you could leave your name and address.
Then you expect to hear from him?
LLucy
No.
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