A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV Series)
The Doorbell Rang (2001)
Maury Chaykin: Nero Wolfe
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Quotes
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Nero Wolfe : You are disheveled.
Archie : Also dislumbered. Also disgruntled.
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Nero Wolfe : You say, "stop him." I take it you mean, compel the FBI to stop annoying you?
Mrs. Rachel Bruner : Yes.
Nero Wolfe : How?
Mrs. Rachel Bruner : I don't know.
Nero Wolfe : Nor do I. No, madam. You invited it, and you have it.
Mrs. Rachel Bruner : [trying to goad Wolfe] I thought you were afraid of nobody and nothing.
Nero Wolfe : [unruffled] I can dodge folly without backing into fear.
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Mrs. Rachel Bruner : [gushing] Is there anything you can't do?
Nero Wolfe : Yes, madame, there is. I couldn't put sense into a fool's brain if I tried.
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Mrs. Rachel Bruner : Do I need to tell you who I am?
Nero Wolfe : Mr. Goodwin named you, and I read newspapers.
Mrs. Rachel Bruner : I know you do. I know a great deal about you. That's why I'm here. I want you to do something perhaps no other man alive could do. You read books too? Have you read one entitled "The F.B.I. Nobody Knows?"
Nero Wolfe : Yes.
Mrs. Rachel Bruner : Did it impress you?
Nero Wolfe : [pausing] Yes.
Mrs. Rachel Bruner : Favorably?
Nero Wolfe : Yes.
Mrs. Rachel Bruner : My goodness, you're curt.
Nero Wolfe : I answered your questions, madam.
Mrs. Rachel Bruner : I know you did. I can be curt, too.