The Rockford Files (TV Series)

A Material Difference (1979)

James Garner: Jim Rockford

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Quotes 

• Jim Rockford : [grabs Angel by the collar]  Angel, you're driving me crazy, you understand? I'm going crazy and I can't take it anymore!

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : Jimmy...

  Jim Rockford : [has his hand on Angel's throat]  Years and years and years! I'm going out of my mind! Your stu-pid, ri-diculous lies and ideas and games year after year!

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : [croaks]  ... give me my windpipe...

  Jim Rockford : [lets go, looks at his hands; they're shaking]  Look at me! Look at me! Look at me!

  [collapses against fence in hopelessness] 

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : [timidly]  Jimmy...

  Jim Rockford : Just don't say anything! Just don't-say-anything!

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : Hey Jimmy...

  Jim Rockford : [sound of desperation]  What?

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : I'm sorry...

  [Jim raises his head and looks at him in disbelief] 

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : Stick of gum?

  [he has pulled the packet out of his pocket and offering a piece. Jim accepts it without grace] 

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

  Joe Myers : [beeep]  Jim, Joe Myers of Crowell, Finch and Merriweather. We're going to court tomorrow on that Penrose fraud case, but the steno misplaced your two hundred page deposition. Could you come down tonight and give it again?

• Jim Rockford : [Jim and Angel are trying to figure out why all these people are after them, killed Kramer, and didn't take Rocky's Bronkbuster jeans]  Or, no, maybe... maybe it's because they already knew everything about them.

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : Huh?

  Jim Rockford : Ah.

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : What?

  Jim Rockford : [Takes a bite of his taco]  Mmm-hmm...

  [Jim chews, smiles, and winks at Angel]