A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV Series)

The Doorbell Rang (2001)

Timothy Hutton: Archie Goodwin

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Quotes 

• Sarah Dacos : Say, Mr. Goodwin, you could have gone upstairs. I can't hear through walls.

  Archie : No? You might be wired for sound and there's only one way to find out and... I'm not sure you'd enjoy it.

  Sarah Dacos : How do you know I wouldn't?

• Nero Wolfe : You are disheveled.

  Archie : Also dislumbered. Also disgruntled.

• [first lines] 

  Archie : [narrating]  Since it was the deciding factor, I might as well begin by describing it. It was a pink slip of paper three inches wide and seven inches long, and it told the First National City Bank to pay to the order of Nero Wolfe fifty thousand dollars. Signed, Rachel Bruner, the widow of Lloyd Bruner. At least eight of the several dozen buildings Bruner left his wife were more than twelve stories high.