Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series)

The First Time (1983)

Bruce Boxleitner: Lee Stetson

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Quotes 

• Lee : Amanda... I happen to like being alone. You'll notice I don't even work with a partner.

  Amanda : No, I hadn't noticed, but that's probably because we were too busy working together.

  Lee : No, no, no, no. No, no, no, you were not a partner, you were an emergency. A partner's a guy who laughs at your jokes, he loans you his socks, and one day he takes a bullet through the head for you.

  [realizes he's said too much] 

• Billy Melrose : They tell me you lost the package.

  Lee : Don't I get any points for making a miraculous escape? Unloading those thugs was no day at the beach. What do you say, Billy?

  Billy Melrose : Straighten your badge.

• Francine Desmond : It was the same ploy that Lee used in Munich, in his brilliant rescue of Dr. Forbisher's formula. His methods might be unorthodox, but Scarecrow always delivers.

  Lee : I owe you a drink.

  Francine Desmond : You owe me a dinner.

• Lee : See, knowing our little secret puts your family in a very... vulnerable position. If they don't know anything, they can't be targets.

  Amanda : Hm-mm. What about me?

  Lee : Champagne?

• Amanda : How did you find me?

  Lee : We have our ways.

  Amanda : [chuckles]  I thought only Nazis and spies said that.

  Lee : Well, I'm not a Nazi...

• Amanda : Isn't this where you guys meet? Like, in sort of isolated places, kinda creepy and stuff?

  Lee : Yeah, only when we wear trench coats.

• Amanda : [attempting to fly a helicopter]  How am I doing?

  Lee : [keeping his eyes screwed shut]  You're doing just fine!

  Amanda : Open your eyes!

• Dirk Fredericks : And now you tell me we might've had a clue to this thing but our quarter back here fumbles the ball.

  assistant : Excuse me. Uh, Mr. Stetson, I thought you'd want to know they just located Special Agent Guthrie.

  Lee : The quarter back just recovered the ball.

  Dirk Fredericks : [Cut to morgue]  That was your ball carrier?

  Lee : They were after me. I handed off to him, he was to go in for the t. d.; why are we talking like this?

• Lee : [whispering]  I want that package.

  Amanda : Good. I don't.

  Lee : I'll come to your house.

  Amanda : You certainly will not! Philip, do not hit your brother in the head with trash! I'll send it to you. Where do you live?

  Lee : Oh, I can't tell you that.

  Amanda : Good. Good-bye.

  Lee : Now wait. Hold it, stop. I have to see you.

  Amanda : No. Are you gonna let go of my car?

  Lee : No. Here, take my card.

  [Puts business card under wiper blade] 

  Lee : [to the back of the car as Amanda drives off]  Call me!

• Lee : No, no. Lookout! Pedal! No, not that pedal!

  Amanda : I don't know which pedal.

  Lee : [Looking at Amanda]  What are you wearing?

  Amanda : What do you care?