The Rockford Files (TV Series)
Irving the Explainer (1977)
Noah Beery Jr.: Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford
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Quotes
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Jim Rockford : [Jim's helping Rocky bring in some groceries, and when they enter Rocky's house, there's a woman there, doing work] Oh, hey, dad; I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you, this is Daphne Ishawahara. She's gonna help me out on this case. Daphne, this is my father, Jospeh Rockford.
Daphne Ishawahara : Nice to meet you, Mr Rockford
[Rocky looks at the big pin, yarn, and notecard- laden board, propped up on the kitchen pass-through counter]
Daphne Ishawahara : Oh, don't worry about this clutter, I'll pack it away each night.
Jim Rockford : You know, I've been going 'tapioca' trying to sift through the mass of facts in this case. Remember Paul Macevoy at UCLA? I thought Daphne might help, you know. She's getting her doctorate in, uh, logic.
Daphne Ishawahara : Frankly, Jim, I don't think we're facing a critical problem, here. What we have to do, is continue to isolate the extraneous factors, go back to the fundamentals of good investigation, and apply Occam's Razor.
Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford : [Utterly confused] What's that?
Daphne Ishawahara : That's an empirical dictum. The dictum was postulated by William of Ockham, the British philosopher.
Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford : You know, you're as good as those folks on those educational TV programs Of course, I never get to watch them, but, I would like to. - my antenna's down.