Seven Days (1998–2001)
Jonathan LaPaglia: Frank Parker
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Quotes
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Lt. Frank Parker : [answering the phone] Stalag 13, Hogan speaking.
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Lt. Frank Parker : Saturday's my one free day.
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : And Sundays?
Lt. Frank Parker : Hangover day. Doesn't count.
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[3rd season title sequence]
Lt. Frank Parker : Ever wish you could live your last week over again? Well, my name's Frank B. Parker and I get to all the time. I work for a secret government project experimenting in time travel. When things really get messed up, I'm the guinea pig they send back to fix everything. Catch is, I can only go back seven days.
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Lt. Frank Parker : [on phone, trying to stop a flight doomed to crash] Yeah, a bomb, a big one! How do I know? 'Cos I'm the one that put it there! 'Cos I'm a mean, bad-ass bomber, that's why! Listen, I've been sucking in jet fumes for 17 years, you know what that does to a person? Well you're about to find out!"
[hangs up, grinning]
Lt. Frank Parker : "That was a lot more fun than it should've been.
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Kid : Hey! My car!
Lt. Frank Parker : Don't worry, I'll mail it back to you.
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Lt. Frank Parker : Someday I'm gonna form a chrononauts' union.
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Lt. Frank Parker : Once you backstep, you can't go back.
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Lt. Frank Parker : Curiosity didn't kill the cat - hesitation did.
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[Olga and Parker are climbing up a long ladder underground]
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : Maybe this isn't the best time to say it, but I'm afraid of heights.
Lt. Frank Parker : We're underground, think about that.
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Lt. Frank Parker : I fly the needles as well as they're designed! Better!
Nathan Ramsey : Then how come your record for perfect lands are exactly zero?
Lt. Frank Parker : [gestures to the sphere] Because sometimes Lulu's got a mind of her own.
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : Lulu?
Lt. Frank Parker : It's a private thing...
Nathan Ramsey : Well, that figures, Parker. Can't make either one of your girlfriends do what you want.
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Capt. Craig Donovan : Frank?
Lt. Frank Parker : Right... uh...
Nathan Ramsey : Get on with it, Parker, or I'm outta here.
Lt. Frank Parker : Nate...
[mumbles]
Lt. Frank Parker : I'm very... sorry.
Nathan Ramsey : You know, I don't think I heard that. My ears are getting bad cause I'm getting old, what did you say?
Lt. Frank Parker : [mumbles a little louder] I'm sorry.
Nathan Ramsey : What did you say?
Lt. Frank Parker : [shouts] I'm sorry!... I'm sorry I broke your nose.
Nathan Ramsey : Did that sound sincere to you?
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : Good for me.
Capt. Craig Donovan : Yeah, sounded great to me.
Nathan Ramsey : Let's get a polygraph down here, I wanna know if he means it!
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Lt. Frank Parker : Damnit Vukavitch, I bust my butt flying that sphere to hell and back and you won't do this one little thing for me?
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : No.
Lt. Frank Parker : I quit. That's it. No more time jumps for this little duck.
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : Good.
Lt. Frank Parker : Did I ever tell you how attractive you are when you turn me down?
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : Yes. The answer is still "no".
Lt. Frank Parker : [turns to Ballard] Real proud of you, big guy!
Dr. John Ballard : I'm not loaning you money, either.
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[Parker has just Backstepped into space near the Global Space Station and made the Conundrum call]
Dr. Bradley Talmadge : Where are you Conundrum?
Lt. Frank Parker : Well, I'm not in Kansas anymore.
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[Flashback to where Parker and Donovan met]
Lt. Frank Parker : Now that we're stuck together, will you just shut up and let me get on with this?
Capt. Craig Donovan : You know you got that rep all through special ops, man.
Lt. Frank Parker : What, being a stud?
Donovan : So, you're from Philly, huh?
Lt. Frank Parker : Suddenly it's social hour.
Donovan : I figure I'd get to know the man I'm about to die with.
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[a Nuclear war just broke out, causing alarms throughout Never-Never-Land to go off]
Lt. Frank Parker : What is this, the end of the world?
Dr. John Ballard : Uh, quite possibly.
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Lt. Frank Parker : What if I say... The 'M' Word!
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : What 'M' word?
Lt. Frank Parker : Marriage, baby.
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : You want to marry me?
Lt. Frank Parker : Yeah, I do!
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : Okay, say I say 'yes'. You want a long engagement, with congugal relations of course, then you'll find some excuse to change your mind.
Lt. Frank Parker : No way, I'll marry you as fast as we can get our blood tests. You name the day, I'll book the chapel.
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : I'll check my calendar.
Lt. Frank Parker : You do that.
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : I will.
Lt. Frank Parker : Good.
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : Fine.
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Lt. Frank Parker : Hey Ramsey, the AmeriBomber is a long lost relative of yours.
Nathan Ramsey : Oh, very funny. How's your Uncle Hussein?
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Lt. Frank Parker : Listen you freakin' morons, Nathan Ramsey is so patriotic he makes Newt Gingrich look like Karl Marx.
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[Ramsey throws a USA Today newspaper onto the briefing table which has detailed information on Project Backstep]
Nathan Ramsey : Great, now even the commies know about Backstep!
Dr. Olga Vukavitch : They even have photographs.
Lt. Frank Parker : You never take a bad one, do you?
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Lt. Frank Parker : Look, Dr. Zhivago, you look like a sensible guy, so let's just bottom-line this thing. We got a groom who's chasing every skirt on the continent, the uncle of the bride shoving her down the aisle to pay for his electric bill, a bride that's only going along because she thinks that's what good little princesses do, a room full of guests who only care about the free food, and an ex-mental patient with an Uzi in his hand and a trigger finger that's starting to get itchy. So what do you say we all just pack up our samosas and go home, huh?
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Lt. Frank Parker : 80,000 Francs? That's a bargain. I'll take it.
Nathan Ramsey : [over an open phone line] "Take it"? Take what? Parker, if your pissing away Uncle Sam's money again...
Lt. Frank Parker : And, uh... Throw in a couple of those cufflinks, you know the platinum jobs with the diamonds.
Nathan Ramsey : No diamonds! We don't pay for diamonds. Fake diamonds! Parker! Pick up the phone! Parker! Answer me! I'll rip your f...
[Parker hangs up]
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[Parker is requesting time off]
Lt. Frank Parker : I'd be on beeper the whole time. A plane crashes, Disneyland gets bombed, the leaning tower falls on its ass, I'll be here with bells on.
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Lt. Frank Parker : The difficult we do immediately, the impossible just takes a little longer.
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Lt. Frank Parker : Listen up, Sunshine. If you make a move against Teo or his family, I'll make sure the FBI, NSA, IRS and every other three-letter organization I can think of will be all over you like really cheap suits.
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Lt. Frank Parker : [Ramsey is briefing the team on global hot-spots and when Olga spills coffee on him] Check it out, a new global hot-spot.
Capt. Craig Donovan : Oh, baby, I hope we don't get sent into that region.
Nathan Ramsey : This is not funny!