Dragnet 1967 (TV Series)

The Big Ad (1967)

Harry Morgan: Officer Bill Gannon

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• Friday : [Friday, Gannon and Steve Deal are in Deal's apartment waiting for the phone to ring; people answering the re-placed ad. The phone rings]  Hello?... Yes, that's right. I placed the ad. Same as last week. Oh?

  [to Steve Deal] 

  Friday : Did you get a letter from a girl named Beverly?

  [Deal makes a "forget it!" gesture] 

  Friday : Yes, I did, I got it. Well, no, no, that wouldn't work out. No, I wouldn't be interested. Yes, I am married. No, I wouldn't be interested, Lady. Yes, Ma'a'm.

  [hangs up] 

  Officer Bill Gannon : What's the matter, Joe? You're not married, and a thousand bucks is a thousand bucks!

  Friday : Well, you ARE married. Suppose somebody offered you a thousand bucks to get a divorce - would you take it?

  Officer Bill Gannon : Joe, that's a terrible question to ask any married man!

• Officer Bill Gannon : [Referring to the underground/alternative newspaper Deal placed the ad in]  The LA Happening, what's that?

  Steve Deal : One of those way-out hippie newspapers, you know, comes out once a week, full of weird ads, and against everything--especially cops.

  [This was clearly patterned after the famous/infamous LA Free Press] 

• Officer Bill Gannon : Joe, you'd better hold it up.

  Friday : What's going on?

  Officer Bill Gannon : Forrester isn't out trying to establish an alibi. He's inside that house right now. You can figure the rest.

  Friday : I kill the wife. He kills me.

  Officer Bill Gannon : Looks that way, doesn't it?

  Friday : Yeah, and the only trouble is, it doesn't change anything. We still don't have anything admissible against him.

  Officer Bill Gannon : Well Joe, maybe the woman's already dead. What's to stop him from killing you the minute you open the door?

  Friday : He's afraid to kill his wife. If he wasn't, she'd have been dead before this. No, I think he has to have somebody else do the job for him.

  Officer Bill Gannon : Who are you trying to convince, me or you?

• Officer Bill Gannon : Relax. Don't let it get to you.

  Friday : Someplace out in this city there's a man making up his mind whether or not to use me to murder his wife, and I don't like it.

  Officer Bill Gannon : Well, there's nothing we can do until he calls again.

  Friday : I don't know. Maybe I just should have pulled him in last night.

  Officer Bill Gannon : You'd have blown the case.

  Friday : Yeah, but maybe it might have scared him off.

• Officer Bill Gannon : You think he's leveling?

  Friday : He wants his wife dead, Bill. Now he's either going to have me do it, or he's going to get somebody else to do it.

  Officer Bill Gannon : Yeah.

  Friday : Or he might even do it himself.