Death Car on the Freeway (1979 TV Movie)

Peter Graves: Lieutenant Haller

Quotes 

• Lieutenant Haller : Miss Claussen, I appreciate your interest, but I think we're talking about two separate incidents that have no connection.

  Jan : Lieutenant Haller, I called Becky; they both said positively that van had one-way glass.

  Lieutenant Haller : But Lynn Bernheimer told investigators the van was black.

  Jan : Look at the way the two attacks happened.

  Lieutenant Haller : Eh, attacks, attacks is your word, not ours.

  Jan : In both instances, okay? The women were trying to get off the freeway, pulled in front of the van.

  Lieutenant Haller : *A*, *a* van.

  Jan : Okay, a van, and he proceeded to prevent them from taking the off ramp they were heading for, and then went on to force them both off the road.

• Jan : Isn't it true that Terrina Manns was being attacked by the Fiddler when she was stopped by a highway patrolman, who not only let the Fiddler get away, but insisted on citing her for speeding?

  Lieutenant Haller : Well I don't have any information on that but if the lady was stopped for speeding, she probably was speeding. Unfortunately we don't have enough men to be everywhere at once. Now if that's all the questions, thank you.

  Jan : But why did the patrolman stop Terrina Manns instead of the van? Because he was more interested in a pretty woman alone in a sporty car?

• Lieutenant Haller : I'd like to say that the public can play an important role in cases like this, especially in a preventive sense. Women especially can help by not making themselves candidates for the Fiddler. You might be interested to know that between them, the victims have accumulated 10 moving violations in the last 3 years. And one of them, Becky Lyons, has had her license suspended on at least one occasion.

  Jan : Lieutenant, are you saying it was somehow these women's fault that they were attacked by the Freeway Fiddler?

  Lieutenant Haller : What I'm saying here is we have a situation where women must be aware of their actions.

  Jan : It sounds to me as if you failed to catch the Fiddler, so you've decided to shift the blame to the victims.

  Lieutenant Haller : No I don't think that's it at all, Miss Claussen.

  Jan : Well sure it is. Isn't that what you're doing?

  Lieutenant Haller : Are you telling me that the victims were 100% blameless in all these cases? Is that what you're saying?

  Jan : How can you pursue this case effectively if you feel this way? You're talking about 10 violations in 3 years? There've been 12 victims, that's not even one violation a piece. That's nothing.

  Lieutenant Haller : No that's not nothing, that's something, because 9 of those women are dead.