The Glitter Dome (1984 TV Movie)

James Garner: Al

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• Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : Halloween in Hollywood is redundant.

• Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : Hollywood is an evil mother-grabber.

  Sgt. Marty Wellborn : Hollywood is no more evil than Hannibal, Missouri.

• Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : I hang out in this bar with all the other Hollywood cops. Okay, so the Glitter Dome isn't a bar; it's a pig pen. And Hollywood isn't a city; it's a land filled with broken dreams. Nothing is what it seems. Y'think this is a cop story; it's not. It's a story about survival - mine.

• Amazing Grace : Takes a stiff rod to catch the big fish.

  Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : Oh, I know.

  Amazing Grace : Just my luck. Oh, no, that was wrong for me to say. What's the matter with me; I should be helpin' you.

• Sgt. Marty Wellborn : Am I a man dreaming I'm a butterfly - or a butterfly dreaming I'm a man?

  Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : You're a freaking idiot! That's what cha are.

• Willie : Oh, I'm blindfolded! And I'm handcuffed! Oh, I'm helpless you filthy gorilla. I can't stop you! I can only beg with you and... plead and plead. Don't rape me! Oh, don't rape me you raping bastard!

  Willie : I won't.

  Willie : Oh, I'm... I'm as helpless as a baby. I'm like a ten year old child.

  Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : Oh, stop it! You're just making it worse.

• Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : While we were hobnobbing with the Hollywood hacks - the two undercover clowns, Ferret and Weasel, were collecting the first real, hard clues in the Sinclair case - only they didn't know it. They were staking out an ex-con named Bozeman and his Asian pal - who were selling kiddie porn to two old farts and a menopause maiden down at the harbor. The deal went sour.

• Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : On the surface Malcolm Sinclair and Sapphire productions had nothing in common except a phone number; but Bozeman made pornos and Sinclair collected them. You didn't need Gypsy blood to make a connection.

• Willie : I'm not the girl you met at the party. I'm really not.

  Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : I didn't bring any handcuffs.

• Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : Now, Marty - he's a religious guy. It doesn't seem to help him much. We see things sometimes, cops; that other people don't see. It leaves stains.

  Willie : When you're investigating and collecting clues?

  Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : We don't collect clues - we collect garbage and pray somebody confesses. That's Marty's line.

• Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : Does the hero solve the crime and get the girl in the end?

  Willie : How'd ya know?

  Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : That's Hollywood.

• Sgt. Aloysius Mackey : The eleven o'clock news shows you a body being wrapped in a white sheet. Somebody's gotta do the wrapping - some night's that's me. Other nights I'm here; which isn't so bad if you don't mind getting shortchanged by Wing, the bartender - or herpes from one of the chicken vultures; who sooner or later is gonna perch on the stool next door.