A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV Series)

The Doorbell Rang (2001)

Maury Chaykin: Nero Wolfe

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• Nero Wolfe : You are disheveled.

  Archie : Also dislumbered. Also disgruntled.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.