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The Rockford Files :: Dirty Money, Black Light (03x22)
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| Title: | Dirty Money, Black Light |
| Episode #: | 03x22 |
| Production Number: | 45005 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday April 01st, 1977 |
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Two men break into Rocky’s house while Rocky’s on vacation. They’re looking for something and they don’t find it. The next day, Jim goes through Rocky’s mail looking for bills to pay and discovers an envelope containing $11,000 in cash! The envelopes keep coming, $11,000 each day without a note or a return address. Angel pinches a little bit of the money – too bad for him, since it’s marked money. Nabbed, he gives up Jim and Joseph right away. Federal agents come after the Rockfords, and so do some people who might be the original source of the money. And Jim can’t reach his father in Hawaii. Jim’s got to figure out what’s going on or Rocky faces fraud, tax evasion and murder charges!
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The introductory credits list Diana Ewing, but the actress never appears in the episode.
| This episode features a television rarity: an Afro-American villain (played by Roger E. Mosely).
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Answering Machine Message: This is Toby. I forgot what I was calling for. Your recording is so boring! Spike it with some humor, some personality, something!
| Frank Blake: What if is doesn’t show tomorrow? What then? It’s going to be hard to explain. You know the people we’ll have to explain it to aren’t going to want to listen to an explanation. What will we do???
Dearborn: Frank, I don’t know. We’re just going to check and see if maybe this guy didn’t have his mail forwarded. I don’t know. Look, Frank, if you don’t calm down, I’m going to give you something else to worry about.
| Angel: Jimmy, Jimmy, listen... the problem is I’m into Electric Larry for a mess of fifties. And the vig – the interest – is destroying me. Word on the street is, Electric Larry, he may commence to break my bones to get even.
| Dennis Becker: That guy’s on a slab because he came out a high window. We don’t know how; we don’t know why. We’d like to know and you can help us with that.
Agent Steiner: Sergeant, we’d like to help you but we’ve got out orders. We’ll send you a name and a disposition for the body.
Dennis Becker: Is it going to be his name or one you’ll make up at the office?
Agent Steiner: Either way, it’s the one you’ll use.
| Jim: Ever since he’s been gone somebody has been sending him money in the mail. Forty-four thousand dollars in two days. No notes, no return address, and all the money in hundred dollar bills.
Beth Davenport: Doesn’t sound like it’s part of his pension plan, does it?
| Beth Davenport: I hope Angel won’t say anything that’s going to get Rocky into trouble.
Jim: Hey, Angel has been in stir. He knows better than to talk without his lawyer present, and you’re his lawyer. Angel knows better. He’ll keep his mouth shut.
(Jim and Beth leave Angel’s apartment and close the door. The scene cuts to an interrogation room.)
Angel: So you want to be talking to Jim Rockford, and his father Joseph. Let me spell that for you. That’s Rockford... R... O... C... K... F... O... R... D... The guy’s got a record, too, you know. The state, they pardon you, but you know the state – they just practically give them pardons away.
| Dennis: The Feds brought Rocky in an hour ago. I don’t know what he’s involved in but it’s something heavy.
Jim: Heavy? Rocky?!? He’s not involved in anything, Dennis. He just got caught in the middle.
| Electric Larry: Smick!! Club soda dispenser in the bar is busted.
Harry Smick: It was fixed last week.
Electric Larry: Ah, fixed last week, huh? You go down there and tell that to the customer standing there and drinking Scotch and air.
Harry Smick: Yeah.
| Electric Larry: You need twenty grand, right? I get three for two. This time next week you owe me thirty grand. The nut and the vig. Little rough for you? Say you don’t want to do it that way. This time next week you owe me ten grand. Long as I get the vig, you keep the nut in your pocket. Right?
Jim: Right.
Electric Larry: I know I’m right. I just said I was right. We ain’t never done business before, so your don’t get no terms. Every day, you owe me fourteen hundred dollars. Last day, sixteen hundred dollars. You understand?
Jim: Yeah, I understand.
Electric Larry: No, you don’t understand. Because if you miss one day of paying me my money, somebody’s going to come by and ask you nice and polite. Second day, they’re gonna start to yell and the third day? It’s like baseball, baby – you out. Now you undertand.
| Agent Steiner: Courier was supposed to mark the money when he got at the man who was to receive it.
Jim: Who was that?
Agent Steiner: Courier went out the window before he could tell us. He was also supposed to leave the marking stamp in the office of the receiver – physical evidence. (bitterly) Six months of work down the drain.
| Jim: I am going to bust your little case for you and then I’m going to shove it down your throat!
| Harry Smick: You’ll be talking to Larry, and your legs will still be back here, wondering where you went!
| Electric Larry: You took twenty grand of my money to the Federal Building and left it there.
Jim: I have certain expenses that don’t concern you, Larry.
Electric Larry: You got a Federal Man on the pad, is that what you’re saying? Man, you’ve got to have a gnat’s brain to borrow grease money from me. Now, you go to your uncle, you go to the bank, you go to the Small Business Administration, you go anywhere but to a shark, rates being what they are. You keep shucking with me, you’re going to end up with a scholarship to the Braille Institute!
| Electric Larry: Smick. Jud. Put some gloves on this turkey. You’re going to go a few rounds with my new discovery here, Honey Boy!
| Dearborn: How did you find us?
Jim: Well, you kept sending money to my father’s house because you knew he was gone. You don’t know my father, so you had to be tied to the contest.
Dearborn: You’re a better detective than I suspected. I’ll think about that for the company.
| Dearborn: We found the courier tampering with the bills in office. We assumed he was marking them.
Jim: You threw him out a window for that?!?
Blake: No, there was an argument. He fought, then he slipped.
Dearborn: We didn’t want it to happen but it did.
| Dearborn: Rockford, if you try to be clever... if you don’t show... the sanctions won’t be economic. We’ll kill you. (after Rockford leaves) Frank, call Tony. I want him here at six and I want him armed.
| Rocky: You know, I still can’t figure out how them Federal fellas found out I was in Honolulu.
Angel: That is hard to figure, isn’t it? But it’s good to know that your government’s doing a heck of a job.
Jim: (looking pointedly at Angel) Yeah, and we can all be thankful for informants, too.
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During the 1960s and 1970s, mob interests operating (usually) from Kansas City routinely skimmed from the counting rooms of Las Vegas casinos. These men operated remotely because of (so it is said) an informal agreement between them and the government to the effect that if they stayed out of Las Vegas, the government would exert no more than the ordinary level of law enforcement pressure, whereas if they operated in Las Vegas, the government would spare no resource to shut them down. Other sources say the mob made the decision to remain at arm's length for its own reasons (probably to avoid drawing excessive law enforcement attention). Either way, the remoteness meant a lot of complex courier schemes designed to get the money where it needed to go, and that meant men not accustomed to trusting people had to... trust people. It also meant the courier link was a weak point where law enforcement could apply pressure, as happened in this episode.
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