Get Smart (TV Series)

The Mess of Adrian Listenger (1970)

Edward Platt: Chief

Quotes 

• Chief : [having been handed a picture]  Why for crying out loud, this is the baseball team I coached when I was an instructor at the Control training school.

  Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 : Well for heaven's sake. Which one is you, Chief?

  Chief : [points]  Right there.

  Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 : Oh, the one with the black baseball cap on.

  Chief : That's not a black baseball cap, that's my hair.

  Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 : Oh really? How come it's got an initial on it?

• Chief : Listenger is the only man on that baseball team who failed to become a Control agent.

  Ace Weems : Yeah, but he succeeded into becoming something else.

  Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 : What was that?

  Ace Weems : A really great murderer.

  [pause] 

  Ace Weems : A really, top-notch murderer. One of the great murderers of all time. Which, really, he was not an ordinary murderer, he was a murderer's murderer I would say. You know, not one you'd meet every day at the store...

• Chief : Larabee, I'm going down to the lab, if anybody wants me, you know where I'll be.

  Larabee : Where's that, Chief?

• Chief : [Max and the Chief have been accused of trying to kill each other]  Ridiculous, Max is like son to me.

  Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 : More than that, the Chief is like a father to me.