The Rockford Files · Season 1
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
[beeep] This is Marie at Liberty Bail Bonds. Your client Todd Leeman skipped, and his bail is forfeit. That's the pink slip on your '79 Firebird, I believe. Sorry, Jim. Bring it on over.
Love is the word they keep you from grappling too hard with.
I do love you.
Freddy, lemme tell ya somethin', Freddy. There's one thing you never do: you never say "put 'em up." You smile at the guy, then sucker-punch him.
Maybe we should forget about lunch and follow up a lead or something?
Which lead did you have in mind, Lance?
We don't have one, Jim.
[laughing] Then I guess it would be hard to follow up then, huh?
C'mon, you and I both know that when you need a lead one always shows up. That's the way it works.
[Frustrated] No, it never just shows up, Lance. Never. Watch my lips: NEV - VER.
Hey guys, look at this.
[He gives Rockford a picture]
What's that?
I found this last night with the Senator. It was in his hand.
[Disbelievingly] Sure it was.
Yeah, I put it in my pocket and forgot about it.
This could be the lead we've been waiting for, Jim.
Wait, wait, wait a minute, let me get this straight.; ten seconds ago we had no leads - nothing, huh?
That's right.
And now Beamer pulls this picture of a band leader or something out of his pocket and says it was in the dead man's hand, and then he tells us it's been in his coat for 18 hours, and it shows up right now when we need it?
That's exactly right, Jim. What's the problem?
Oh, no problem. No, no problem at all. I just want to get it straight. I may want to tell an analyst.
[Turns and walks away]
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
[beeep] Jim, Frank. I put a new outlet in the kitchen. I lay in the cable and the box, then I pulled the breaker, just like you said, and both of my TV sets start burning. What do I do now?
A state senator and a bus driver? What's the connection?
Some things you just have to accept. You know, this is just a hunch, Jim, but I think the bus driver had something on the senator. Maybe the senator was having an affair with the bus driver's wife?
And just where did that come from?
Hunches don't come from any place, Jim, they're just hunches. That's how we solve our cases. We get hunches, they turn out to be right, and the case gets solved. Gee, I don't know how you survive as a private investigator, Jim. You don't seem to know any of this stuff.
When you look at the sun and the stars, the majesty of the firmament, well, our little problems seem very insignificant. And when you add to that the fact that you have friends, *good* friends, friends who want to help you, well, this old world just seems a whole lot better, doesn't it, Fred?
Dontcha think you ought to load that gat in case we gotta smoke a bad guy or somethin'?
[on the telephone] Guess where I am now.
At the bar?
Close - they got a lot of bars in here. You wanna try again?
In jail?
Yeah, that's right!
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
[beeeep] Billings, L.A.P.D. You know, Thursday is Chapman's twentieth year, and we're giving a little surprise party at the captain's. I think you should come. By the way, we need five bucks for the present.
This ended better than a grenade in a wedding cake!
Say, I just wanted to tell you that I'm sorry Whipple got iced.
Hey, he was a soldier doing a soldier's job and he ended up with his dog tags in his boot like a half million other soldiers. I only hope when I get mine it's in the line of duty.
Yeah, that's what I'm hoping for too. I mean, who wants to go out looking at a vase of roses when you can get your head blown off in an alley?
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you.
[beeep] Mr. Rockford? This is Betty Jo Withers. I got four shirts of yours from the Bo Peep Cleaners by mistake. I don't know why they gave me men's shirts but they're going back!
This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
[beeep] Because the way you live says so much about you, your home has been selected by Royal Imperial Roofing and Siding as our neighborhood showcase. A bonded representative will call on you.
I'll take care of it, Mr. Gersh
Like your life depended on it.
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