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- B.T. Brady: [narrating] It had been one of those 48 hour days, I'd spent it chasing down blind alleys with a pro quarterback who was being blackmailed. I knew when I took the case I'd find it was just some fan's prank. But I'd never been down a blind alley with a Los Angelos Ram before and a little touch football sounded like fun. It was.
- Lieutenant Phil Hansen: You know I'm only doing this out of a base self interest.
- B.T. Brady: Bucking for promotion?
- Lieutenant Phil Hansen: No, I'm hoping for a date. And I don't think I'll ever get you to say yes if Jackson kills you first.
- B.T. Brady: Cheerful.
- Groupie: Oh, Mr. Wooley, please, please, may I have your autograph?
- Harrison Wooly: Absolutely not! I despise the intellectual bankruptsy of hero-worshipment. However, if you are determined to demonstrate your adulation, I suggest you repair to your neighborhood bookshop and purchase my complete euvre, 14 volumes of magnificent prose which transcends a somewhat tawdry genre.
- Wolfe Macready: Your mother doesn't want you doing anything dangerous...
- B.T. Brady: It's a manuscript. I have to deliver it to a producer.
- Wolfe Macready: Oh, well, I guess that's ok. They only stab you in the back if you're in the business.
- B.T. Brady: [narrating] Just like in a Dick Powell movie, a gigantic black hole opened up at my feet and I dived right in...