Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (TV Series)

The Robin Tucker's Roseland Roof and Ballroom Murder (1980)

Jeff Goldblum: Lionel Whitney

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• Lionel Whitney : Oh my god, it's terrific. It's like coming upstairs into 1945.

  E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner : That smell of disinfectant is timeless.

• Lionel Whitney : Why don't you just admit that you're chicken and be done with it?

  E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner : All right, I'm chicken. But I'm a pragmatic chicken. And those are the best kind, you see, because they never end up swimming around with the potatoes and gravy.

• Lionel Whitney : What you do is grease people, wack them, you put a cap in their foreheads, right? You send them on the big downer.

• Lionel Whitney : [reading from a Mark Savage mystery novel]  Harry the Rib was about as funny as a tenement house fire. A jowly beast with more chins than the Hong Kong phonebook.

• Lionel Whitney : [on phone]  Oh sure, I'll be scared. My nerves'll be quivering like pounds of lime jello on a porcelain plate!

  E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner : [on other line]  Lime what?

• Lionel Whitney : So why did these guys want my picture? Why would they deface these thousand dollar bills? Why would they wanna meet me in that junkyard?

  E.L. 'Tenspeed' Turner : They didn't wanna be seen and people take pictures to show them to people. That's sort of elementary. That adds up to smart, tricky, dangerous and trouble, the fatal four. So what do we do? We quit!

• Lionel Whitney : My name is Joe Lardner, Susan Lardner's brother. I, I live in Michigan and I came out here to visit Susan, do you know Susan Lardner?

  Dance Hall Girl : Yeah.

  Lionel Whitney : Oh, good. Uhm... anyway, so, so I came out from Michigan, arrived this morning and Susan wasn't around. Mom, that's our mother, said she was working down here.

  Dance Hall Girl : Susan's mother's dead.