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The Rockford Files :: Piece Work (03x10)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Piece Work |
| Episode #: | 03x10 |
| Production Number: | 45022 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday December 17th, 1976 |
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Jim is investigating an insurance claim at a health club when a man named Murray Rosner guesses Jim might be a cop. And that makes Rosner nervous, because he’s working a deal with Ciro Lucas, the club’s owner. Lucas has Jim’s locker searched, and learns enough to send men to his home. Jim surprises them and they spattered him with a rock – which only serves to convince him that he’s stumbled onto something. Jim has just one lead: as he fell, he tore one attacker’s coat pocket and bottles of pills spilled out. The attackers failed to recover one bottle, giving Jim a name: Fred Molin. Jim follows Molin to the Beverly Sherwin Hotel where he collects Rosner. Jim follows the men quite a distance to a barn in the country, and there learns he’s stumbled into something worse than insurance scams: Rosner and Lucas are running guns! But as Jim digs, he discovers that Murray Rosner may be more than he appears.
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Answering Machine Message: This is Dr. Soder’s office again, regarding that root canal? The doctor’s in his office... waiting... (singsong) He’s beginning to dislike you...
| Murray Rosner: That guy in the locker room... he’s a cop. You know you better check it out. What’s a cop doing at a health club?
Herbert Deane: What makes you think he’s a cop?
Murray Rosner: I got eyes. I got a nose. I’ve been around. You know what this does to the deal?
Robert Spiker: Nothing! Any cop gets in the way, we’ll take care of that, okay?
Murray Rosner: Yeah, well, I don’t like it. I got too much invested in this to see it go sour now.
| Gregory McGill: Don’t think I’m unaware of your delaying tactics, Mr. Rockford. Trying to bleed the company while you string out your job as long as you can. It’s always the same with day workers.
| Gregory McGill: You’re pretty independent!
Jim: Not financially. I’ll send you a bill.
| Ciro Lucas: Angie thinks he’s a cop. Says you think so, too.
Murray Rosner: Yeah. Could be. Maybe we should put the deal off, eh?
Ciro Lucas: Easier to put him off.
Murray Rosner: Yeah, but what if he’s a brass button?
Ciro Lucas: Anybody can have an accident – happens all the time. Even getting in and out of the bathtub is a high risk proposition.
| Jim: C’mon, Dennis, what are you sore about? You hate paperwork!
Dennis: I also hate being used as Information Please, and you do that all the time.
Jim: We’re friends!
Dennis: Off duty we’re friends. On duty I’m a cop! You come in with a legitimate beef, I’m supposed to file a report. You came in to pump me.
| Jim: Whatever happened to good morning?
Dennis: I’ll bring it back when I’m in a better mood!
| Jim: I don’t know what you’re so sore about, Dennis, but you want to shut up and listen to what I got to say?
Dennis: (angrily) NO! You’re going to shut up and listen to what I got to say for a change!!
| (Jim gave Dennis a tip about gunrunners. Dennis organized an extensive (and expensive) bust only to discover that the gunrunners had moved their merchandise.)
Dennis: How do I explain this?!? How the hell do I explain this?!?
(Later, back at police headquarters.)
Lt. Chapman: There is no explanation. No possible, rational, acceptable explanation. A command post?!? On whose authority???
| Jim: Hey, what if Tom Varney didn’t fall into the swimming pool? What if he tumbled to the gun running operation. That would explain a whole lot.
| Jim: Rocky, I’m just lookin’ for a lead.
Rocky: No, you ain’t. You’re lookin’ for what you’re always lookin’ for... trouble!
| Murray Rosner: Nobody’s going to get hurt. I’m just taking Rockford out for the final quarter – ‘til I collect what’s due.
| (Discovering that Jim accepted a $5000 reward - a tenth of what he should have received - from Federal agents.)
Murray Rosner: You know something, Rockford? You got stiffed!
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Jim is shown picking a lock with a flashlight in one hand and a probe in the other. In fact, it’s almost impossible to pick a cylinder lock this way – you need a tension bar and some kind of pick (the precise geometry will depend on the lock) working together to do the job.
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Dennis sarcastically referred to himself as Information Please after discovering another of Jim's ruses to gain police information. Information Please was a radio (and briefly television) program of the 1950s. Contestants sent questions to a panel of experts who tried to answer them. .If they could not do so, the contestant won money and prizes, typically a set of Encyclopedia Britannica.
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For someone who has navigated the police department to the rank of sergeant, Dennis gets played awfully easy by Murray Rosman’s act. Granted, the act dovetails nicely with Dennis’ inherent distrust of Jim, but when a man strikes up a casual conversation and then asks as many questions as Murray did, it should have rung an alarm somewhere in Dennis’ police brain.
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