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The Rockford Files :: Drought at Indianhead River (03x05)
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| Title: | Drought at Indianhead River |
| Episode #: | 03x05 |
| Production Number: | 45021 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday November 05th, 1976 |
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Jim’s friend Angel has dropped out of sight – it’s been three months since Jim saw him. Then he has lunch with his wiseguy friend David, and David says something strange: that Angel died. Shocked, Jim asks when and David tells him, “Tomorrow. Wednesday at the latest.” So Jim goes to Angel’s place and finds out Angel has moved to a penthouse in the Sunset Arms Apartments! Sure enough, there’s Angel in new, fancy clothes and at a new, fancy address. Jim digs, and learns Angel is sixty percent owner of the Indianhead River Land Development Company. More digging and a run-in with a mobster only reveal more questions. Who told Angel that some fertile land is dry and useless, and why? Why is an insurance man talking as though Angel were already dead? And how does it all fit together? Before long, Jim finds himself sought in connection with a murder – if he can’t puzzle this one out, Angel will die and Jim will end up back in the box!
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Angel mentions famous mobsters Al Capone and Frank Nitti in the dialogue. Coincidentally, guest star Nicholas Georgiade (playing a Mob hood) did battle with Capone and Nitti on television a few years earlier when he played Agent Enrico Rossi on The Untouchables.
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Answering Machine Message: Jim, thanks for taking little Billy fishing. He had a great time! Turns out he wasn’t really seasick. Um... have you ever had chicken pox?
| David Marcone: Except for you and, uh, two or three of my old clients, I don’t write the action any more. I administer it. I’m, uh, upwardly mobile.
Jim: You’re also related.
David Marcone: That, too.
| Jim: Hey, David – have you seen Angel Martin around? I haven’t seen him for the last three months.
David Marcone: He died.
Jim: When?!?
David Marcone: Tomorrow. Wednesday at the latest. I’ll see you, Jim.
| Jim: Angel, I think you’d better talk to me, and it can’t wait – it’s a matter of life or death... yours.
| Angel: Now who’d want to kill me?
Jim: You want the names alphabetically, or in order of importance?
| Jim: David, what’s going on?
David Marcone: Plenty. You get me off the hook I’m on, I’ll treat you right.
| Danny: You make any noise and Skipper here will park a bullet in your head.
| Dominic Marcone: When I trust a guy, I like him to tell me the truth. If he doesn’t, he’s gonna end up in the flower business. As a soil additive!
| Dominic Marcone: I’m gonna ask you one more time. I want to hear about the other thing David discussed with you. I want the whole story.
Jim: There’s nothing else.
Dominic Marcone: (after a long speculative pause) Alright, Jim. I’m gonna let it go this time. But I promise you – if I find out you’re lying, I’m gonna have to settle the score. And I always keep my promises.
| (About Dominic Marcone)
Jim: He’s a real breath of stale air, isn’t he?
Danny: He’s a winner. What are you, Mr. Rockford?
| Rocky: You keep monkeying around with those fellas that are in trouble with the law, and some of that trouble’s gonna rub off on you.
| David Marcone: I swear, Uncle Dom, I don’t discuss company business with outsiders.
| Dominic Marcone: Two years I been setting it up. Three months ago Brad finds this guy, he’s a perfect dodo. Five million dollars to the company if we don’t louse it up. So if somebody wants to talk about the hit, the pigeon wants to fly – that’s gonna be a major disaster.
| Dominic Marcone: My father, God rest his soul, killed a man in a dispute over a barrel full of vegetables. YOUR BROTHER AND ME!! WE’D KILL TO PROTECT WHAT HE GAVE US!!!
| David Marcone: Ten years I been on the gravy train, Jim. Tonight I got a whole new look at things. My grandfather killed some guy for a wheelbarrow full of vegetables. And he parlayed that noble act into a fortune. How’s that for family heritage?
Jim: David, what’s going on?
David Marcone: Things have got complicated, Jim. I gotta take Angel. And once it all unravels you’re gonna know why he was hit, and that’s gonna cost my people a lot, so you’ve gotta take the gaff, too. I’m sorry, I don’t like this, but I got no choice.
Jim: You’re not a killer, David.
David Marcone: We’re gonna have to see if I am or not. Let’s go.
| (Angel has involved Jim in a confidence game, the mob is trying to kill them both, and the police want them for murder.)
Angel: You ain’t takin’ this too well.
Jim: (through gritted teeth) Really. I think under the circumstances I am remarkably UNDER CONTROL!!!
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