The Rockford Files (TV Series)

The Empty Frame (1978)

James Garner: Jim Rockford

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Quotes 

• Jim Rockford : This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.

  Female Friend : Jim, directions to the party: left on Saugus, you'll see a rock, left, left again, right, another left, there's kinda a hill, keep going, you'll probably see a bunch of cars.

• Jim Rockford : What's Chapman doing working the door?

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : Chapman and a couple of other off-duty cops are here acting as security cuz there's a lot of important people. We've got four police commissioners, we've got a deputy mayor, we've got two deputy police chiefs. Thing is bigger than Cher's birthday.

• Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : What I am tryin' to demonstrate to you is what true influence is worth. I'm not talkin' small time, I'm talkin' the big bag job in the sky!

  [Jim rolls his eyes] 

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : Anytime Chapman starts to bother you or any of your friends, you call Angel Martin. I'll have him crated and shipped to the apple orchard indefinitely, for which I'll pick up a little money or favor from...

  [he nods at Jim] 

  Jim Rockford : Well that could be dangerous, Angel. That's what's called influence peddling!

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : Peddling? I ain't a peddler. A peddler is a guy who stands on a corner and eats exhaust fumes!