Harry O (TV Series)

Double Jeopardy (1975)

David Janssen: Harry Orwell

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• [first lines] 

  Harry Orwell : If the fog hadn't burned off early that morning, I wouldn't have gone fishing, and I might never have seen her. The perfect image of the good life. Like a travel brochure. Or a glossy advertisement for your favorite brand of cigarettes.

• Harry Orwell : Hey, would you do me a favor?

  Receptionist : Oh, I'd consider it. Then I'd refuse.

  Harry Orwell : Hey, wait a minute. What if I told you you were the most attractive woman I'd ever met?

  Receptionist : Especially if you said that.

  Harry Orwell : What if I said that you were the most efficient, the most competent receptionist I'd ever met?

  Receptionist : That would make me sick.

  Harry Orwell : Yeah? What if I told you I was going to quote to you Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale"?

  Receptionist : Can you do that?

  Harry Orwell : No, I can't do that. I lied about that.

  Receptionist : [laughing]  Then I'll consider it.

  Harry Orwell : You're a nice girl.

• Harry Orwell : [Finds Lt. Trench sitting alone in a courtroom, looking down]  You lose a big one?

  Lt. K.C. Trench : No, we won. Defendant was convicted.

  Harry Orwell : How come you don't look happy about it?

  Lt. K.C. Trench : Well, I just work here. Don't I? Defendant was a woman, 24 years old. Probably weighed 95 lbs. She wasn't very pretty. For six years she was married to a man who punched her out once or twice a week, every week, for six years. And finally she couldn't take it anymore. She emptied a .38 into him. So today she was convicted. Punched out one more time. Big triumph for the homicide division, big triumph for the district attorney's office, big triumph for the city, and the state, and the whole free world.

  [pause] 

  Lt. K.C. Trench : What do you want, Orwell?

• Harry Orwell : The big wheels get the grease, right, Trench?

  Lt. K.C. Trench : Orwell, I don't know what kind of cop you were, but I do know what kind I am. And my kind of cop gets very angry at cracks like that. And when I'm angry, Orwell, I'm not nice.

• Carl Milland : The law's hands are tied. My hands are free.

  Harry Orwell : It's too bad they're not clean.

• Harry Orwell : And I want to apologize for that remark I made the other day. I was out of line.

  Lt. K.C. Trench : That's right. You were.

• Harry Orwell : Goodbye, ladies, I'm a mental giant.

• Todd Conway : [refering to his van]  You sell it and add that to your fee.

  Harry Orwell : Well, I may keep it and sell this. I think my sports car phase is coming to an end.

• Todd Conway : What kind of place is this anyway?

  Harry Orwell : It's a place like any other place. Sometimes not so good, sometimes not kind, sometimes not fair.

• Harry Orwell : I'm a real loser. I hijack elevators.

  Carl Milland : Sometimes even death takes a holiday. You have one day, Mr. Orwell. Twenty-four hours. After that, you better step aside and let justice be done.

• Harry Orwell : You don't seem to care who pays for your daughter's death. Why don't you pick a name out of the phone book?

  Carl Milland : Mr. Orwell, men who dig in the dirt sometimes dig their own graves. Be careful. Frank, get rid of him.

  Frank Cabot : Alright, get in your little junk car and go away. And stay away this time.