Mike Hammer (TV Series)

My Son and Heir (1958)

Darren McGavin: Mike Hammer

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• [first lines] 

  [a phone call awakens Mike in the wee hours of the morning] 

  Mike Hammer : Yeah?

  Mr. Oland : Hammer?

  Mike Hammer : Yeah, it seems likely.

  Mr. Oland : This is Eugene T. Oland. Do you recognize the name?

  Mike Hammer : Well, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I do.

  Mr. Oland : I understand you're a pretty tough fella.

  Mike Hammer : Well, wha'-what? You wanna take me on at two o'clock in the morning?

• Mike Hammer : Listen, chum, whoever gave you the information that I was a professional goon made a bad mistake.

  Mr. Oland : If I can come over and talk to you...

  Mike Hammer : If I ever took anybody on, it was because I was mad at 'em, in self defense or because somebody woke me up at two o'clock in the morning. Good night!

• Mike Hammer : Who do you want taken on?

  Mr. Oland : My son.

• Mike Hammer : [narrating]  This was Eugene T. Oland in person. You could not read the financial page on any given day and not see his name. His face had launched a thousand companies; his voice made ticker tape stand up and dance like a cobra. I wasn't about to take a job manhandling his son, but I wanted to see the kind of a father that would want his man-child beaten up and wasn't man enough to do it himself.

• Mr. Oland : Now don't misunderstand me. I don't want to hurt the boy in spite of what I'm asking. I still love him. I'm telling you this in confidence.

  Mike Hammer : Oh, I won't tell that you love your son. OK?

  Mr. Oland : Hammer, why do try so hard to be cute?

  Mike Hammer : 'Cause it's after two o'clock in the morning and I tryin' hard not to be ugly!

• Mr. Oland : I'll give you five hundred dollars to drive me up there. What have you got to lose?

  Mike Hammer : Sleep!... But not five hundred dollars worth.

• Mike Hammer : I'm sure there ought to be something I can do around here. I might chop wood, sweep up the floor, maybe clean blood spots off the rug...

• Mr. Oland : No one's going to call the police, doctor.

  Dr. Roy : I'm sorry, Gene. I'll have to.

  Mr. Oland : And give the newspapers a field day with the Oland name and reputation? You owe me more than that.

  Dr. Roy : I owe you a great deal, Gene, but I'm a doctor.

  Mr. Oland : A staff doctor in a charity clinic - that's what you'd be if I didn't build you a hospital.

  Mike Hammer : Well, you don't hold any of my markers, Oland. I'll make that call.

• Mike Hammer : [narrating]  I only had one friend as loyal to me as Braddock was to the Olands - my gun - but my friend was in the glove compartment of my car. I could have taken a dive through the window, but there was a lot of open space between the cabin and the car. Maybe it was just a heart attack and maybe the Olands were just protecting there good name, but I had the feeling there was a lot more being covered up here than could be covered up by a blanket over a dead girl's body.

• [last lines] 

  Mike Hammer : Well, if a judge and jury doesn't separate you two, you'll live a long, long life together... which ought to be punishment enough for anybody.