Soap (TV Series)
Episode #2.10 (1978)
Donnelly Rhodes: Dutch Leitner
Quotes
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Jessica : Dutch, tell me: did you really kill a man?
Dutch : Yeah.
Jessica : Dead? You shot him dead?
Dutch : That's usually what happens in a successful killing.
Jessica : Of course.
Dutch : You see, what happened is that when I got out of the Navy, I borrowed some money to go into business. The banks all turned me down for a loan, so I went to a local loan company. They gave me $5000 at a very high rate of interest. In the first week, when I couldn't come up with the dough, they broke my fingers. The second week, they broke my nose, two ribs and my knee. Plus the guy who was beating me up had a very bad cold, so I ended up with a terrible cough. The next week, they was gonna break my head, but I convinced them not to.
Jessica : How?
Dutch : Well, I talked to them for a while and then I shot 'em.
Jessica : I think that should be considered self-defense.
Dutch : It was, but the guy who owned the loan company turned out to be the Chief of Police.