Jennifer Warren Quotes

Harry Moseby What do you got em for?

Paula Well, there's a big demand for dolphins. Lots of people want em, you'd be surprised. People buy them for their swimming pools. They think it's chic to have a dolphin for a pet. Like that craze for baby alligators in New York years back. When they got bored with em, they flushed them down the john. Now they got a sewage system swarming with blind, albino, shit-eating alligators.

Harry Moseby I'm not too sure I believe that.

Paula You're not one of those "intent on the truth" types, are you?

Harry Moseby Well, not religious about it, no, but I...

Paula How do you resist Delly?

Harry Moseby Oh, I just think good, clean thoughts, like Thanksgiving, George Washington's teeth.

Paula Oh, that's a beauty.

Harry Moseby Yeah, but he didn't see it. He played something else and he lost. He must have regretted it every day of his life. I know I would have. As a matter of fact I do regret it, and I wasn't even born yet.

Paula That's no excuse.

Paula Where were you when Kennedy got shot?

Harry Moseby Which Kennedy?

Paula Any Kennedy.

Harry Moseby When the president got shot, I was on my way to San Diego. Football game. When Bobby got shot, I was sitting in a car waiting for a guy to come out of a house with his girlfriend. Working on a divorce case. One of those times I wish I was in another business.

Paula When we're all as free as Delly there'll be rioting in the streets.

Harry Moseby What'd you do before this?

Paula This and that... I taught school, I... kept house. I waited tables... I did a little stripping, I did a little hooking... and I trod a lot of water.

Harry Moseby Sounds kind of bleak. Or is it just the way you tell it?

Paula Do you ask these questions because you wanna know the answer, or is it just something you think a detective should do?

Harry Moseby I just want you to know I'm here.