Mike Hammer (TV Series)

Another Man's Poisson (1959)

Darren McGavin: Mike Hammer

Quotes 

• Mike Hammer : [narrating]  When I start looking for somebody, I always operate on the theory that sometimes the shortest distance between two points is the telephone line.

• Maria : Oh, I guess I know what you think of me, Mike. I made some mistakes.

  Mike Hammer : Mistakes? Is that what you call 'em?

  Maria : Yes, that's what I call them! I made them all before I met Vic. I've changed!

  Mike Hammer : Everybody changes, Maria. The difference is most people change for the better.

• [discussing Helen's ex-husband] 

  Helen Torrey : What's he done now?

  Mike Hammer : Then you do know him.

  Helen Torrey : I was married to him - off and on - for about eight years.

  Mike Hammer : Well well well.

  [Helen offers Mike a cigarette] 

  Mike Hammer : No thanks. Well, do you know where I can find him?

  Helen Torrey : Sure - under the nearest rock!

• Mike Hammer : [narrating]  I'd been lucky. Torrey's toad-sticker had bounced off a rib. It had plowed up a furrow of skin, but it hadn't made any holes that needed vulcanizing.

• [Mike answers his phone] 

  Maria : Hello, Mike?

  Mike Hammer : [to Vic]  Speak of the devil, it's his kid sister.

• [last lines] 

  [Maria calls after Vic, who has just slammed the door behind him] 

  Mike Hammer : You're wasting your time, Maria. Vic was never able to see you; now he can't even hear you.