Walking Shadow (2001 TV Movie)

Joe Mantegna: Spenser

Quotes 

• Spenser : Because you're on the board of the Port City Theater, and because the director thinks he's being stalked, I have to endure two hours of lousy drama?

  Susan Silverman : No. Because Jimmy Christopholous is a friend, because you are my honey, because sleuthing is your business, and because you will enjoy the ultimate theater party for two this evening.

• Susan Silverman : Do you know how much this means to me?

  Spenser : [pause]  : Damn!

  Susan Silverman : I'll double your usual fee.

  Spenser : Remind me, what is my usual fee?

  Susan Silverman : Two nights of ecstasy.

  Spenser : So double would be four. Payable in thirty days?

  Susan Silverman : I'll halve the time. Four nights of ecstasy in two weeks. Deal?

  Spenser : Deal.

  Susan Silverman : Sucker.

  Spenser : What, am I charging enough?

  Susan Silverman : You're charging enough... but you'd've gotten it anyway.

  Spenser : I know.

• Spenser : Hey, I'm willing to tell you all I know.

  Chief DeSpain : You haven't told me squat.

  Spenser : True, but it's all I know.

• Jocelyn Colby : [meeting Spenser]  Way to go, Susan! Hunk city!

  [She leaves.] 

  Spenser : You think she has designs on me sexually?

  Susan Silverman : Almost certainly.

  Spenser : Because I'm hunk city?

  Susan Silverman : Because you're male.

• Spenser : This may not be a routine murder. Most murders don't happen in a crowded theater.

• Spenser : So the killing might be connected to the play, so I need someone to... tell me what the play was about.

  Lou Montana : Ahem. Lou Montana. I directed. And, uh, your question is absurd.

  Spenser : No; an actor getting shot on stage wearing tights while singing "Land of Love" is absurd.

  Lou Montana : Ah. And what was your response to the play?

  Spenser : I found it a pretentious mishmash about appearance and reality.

  Lou Montana : Well, art isn't "about"

  [makes air quotes] 

  Lou Montana : anything. It *is* movement and speech in space and time.

  Spenser : Thank you!

  Lou Montana : I didn't expect you'd understand.

  Spenser : Me either.

• Spenser : Could you arrange for me to have lunch with her?

  Susan Silverman : I'm not sure she'd be willing to meet with you.

  Spenser : Mention to her about me being hunk city!

  Susan Silverman : That ought to do it.

• Spenser : [narrating]  Rikki Wu was sex. She was spoiled, self-centered, shallow, maybe cruel, certainly careless about other people. But she was sex.

• Lonnie Wu : It is unseemly for her to be having lunch with a lo fan.

  Spenser : Is "lo fan" a term of racial endearment?

  Lonnie Wu : It means "barbarian". Someone who is not Chinese.

  Spenser : So you don't fully subscribe to the melting-pot theory?

  Lonnie Wu : I'm not here to make small talk. It would be best if you stayed out of Port City.

  Spenser : Is it okay if I retain my U.S. citizenship?

  Lonnie Wu : What you choose to do outside of Port City is your business. But if you choose to come back, we will make it our business, and I will not be able to protect you.

  Spenser : Protect me from whom?

  Lonnie Wu : From me.