Mike Hammer (TV Series)

The Broken Frame (1958)

Bart Burns: Captain Pat Chambers

Quotes 

• Captain Pat Chambers : Alright, Stark, what's on your mind?

  Otis Stock : Oh, I've been thinking about a lot of things, Chambers. Mostly, I've been thinking about you and Mike Hammer - wondering how you two would feel if you found out you sent an innocent man to the chair.

  Captain Pat Chambers : Meaning yourself, Stark?

  Otis Stock : Oh, you're a good cop as cops go, Chambers, but I figured you'd be bothered by a thing like that - jobbing an innocent guy - oh, and Hammer, too. He's tougher than you, maybe, but I'd give him the hives, too... inside, where a guy can't scratch 'em.

• Captain Pat Chambers : As far as the Department is concerned the Bennett case is closed. There's not enough new evidence to justify reopening it.

  Mike Hammer : Yeah, but that's not good enough for you, huh? Why? Do you know something more than is here in Stark's statement?

  Captain Pat Chambers : Yeah. Stark said he could prove it was on the level.

  Mike Hammer : How?

  Captain Pat Chambers : I don't know; he wouldn't say. He said the proof would come out after he'd gone to the chair.

  Mike Hammer : After he goes...? Oh, that's cute. He's real cute, isn't he? Well, if Stark's planted a time bomb somewhere, I'd better get dressed and see if I can find it before it blows up in our faces.

• Mike Hammer : Did you check with the hospital about David Kendall?

  Captain Pat Chambers : He's going to live... just long enough to die.

  Mike Hammer : Well, that's just about all any of us do, Pat.