Mike Hammer (TV Series)

Swing Low, Sweet Harriet (1959)

Lorne Greene: Emmett Gates

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [Emmett listens to his voice on a tape recording] 

  Emmett Gates : I mean it darling; I love you, I want you, I need you... You're the most exciting woman...

  [Emmett turns off tape recorder] 

  Emmett Gates : Did I actually say anything as banal, as trite as that?

  Harriet Britton : Word for word, Emmett darling.

• [Emmett writes a check for Harriet] 

  Emmett Gates : Now I give you this and you give me the tape recording and we can both look back on our friendship with fond memories.

  Harriet Britton : But Emmett honey, this is for two thousand dollars.

  Emmett Gates : Well, think nothing of it.

  Harriet Britton : That's exactly what I do think of it.

  [Harriet tears up the check] 

  Harriet Britton : Nothing!

  Emmett Gates : Nothing? What exactly did you have it mind?

  Harriet Britton : Fifteen thousand dollars.

  Emmett Gates : Fifteen!

  Harriet Britton : Well, think how much more that it would cost you if your wife divorced you.

• Mike Hammer : Well, who tried to make it look like suicide?

  Emmett Gates : I did.

  Mike Hammer : Well, what made you think you cold get away with a fool thing like that?

  Emmett Gates : I don't know. I lost my head.

  Mike Hammer : You could lose your head for real if you don't watch out.