Midnight Quotes

[first lines of each episode]

Announcer: On a mountaintop, high above a large city, stands the headquarters of a man devoted to the cause of freedom and justice... a war hero who has never stopped fighting against his country's enemies... a private citizen who is dedicating his life to the struggle against evil men everywhere... CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT!

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[first lines]

Minerva: Quit eye balling me, Flavius. I knew you when you was a two bit hustler on Bull Street.

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[John is a restricted to a wheelchair]

John Donnelly: I never drink and wheel.

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[last lines of Episode 1.21]

Captain Midnight: Attention all Secret Squadron members! The Arctic Circle is the object of our next mission. There in the frozen North we'll meet the deadly challenge of enemy agents who are trying to sabotage our radar defenses - fight our way across the frozen tundra - face snowblindness and death as tons of snow and ice come crashing down on us in a thundering avalanche. We'll rendezvous here at headquarters as usual. This is Captain Midnight signing off with the code of the Secret Squadron: "Justice through strength and courage." Out!

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Ahmet: Where are you going? Why don't you walk the wheel with us? What is the matter my American friend? What has upset you? Oh! I know. The bad machine doesn't know that he's a bad machine. You still don't believe it. You still don't believe you're a bad machine? To know yourself is to know God, my friend. The factory knows, that's why they put you here. You'll see... You'll find out... In time, you'll know.

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Ashley: What are you thinking?

Taylor: Huh?

Ashley: I asked you what you were thinking.

Taylor: Nothing.

Ashley: You can't be thinking about nothing. Even a retard has something on his mind.

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Billy Hayes: Dear Susan: Poor Jimmy was caught and beaten so badly he got a severe hernia, and lost a testicle. He's been in the sanitarium for months. In comparison, my problems seem very small.

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Colin Grant: Here's to crime!

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Eddie Moscone: If you bring him in, I'll give you what I'm giving Walsh.

Marvin Dorfler: Yeah, what's that?

Eddie Moscone: Twenty-five thousand. But you gotta bring him in before Friday midnight or the deal's off!

Marvin Dorfler: Don't worry, Eddie. For twenty-five grand I'll bring him in on a silver platter!

Eddie Moscone: Bring him in any way you want, just bring him!

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Fury Shark: What do you want me to do?

Ivan Shark: Get the "Manners" outfit, of course.

Fury Shark: Really, Father, I don't know what you have in mind.

Ivan Shark: Of course not. If you did, you'd be running the place and I'd be getting the suit.

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George Rubens: Marvelous! Astounding! I mean to say, very good.

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Gloria Beaumont: Well who the **** fired you?

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Gretel McAlbertson: Why are you stealing food?

Ratso Rizzo: I was just, uh, noticing that you're out of salami. I think you oughtta have somebody go over to the delicatessen, you know, bring some more back.

Gretel McAlbertson: Gee, well, you know, it's free. You don't have to steal it.

Ratso Rizzo: Well, if it's free, then I ain't stealin'.

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Henery Hawk: Got a match, mister?

Foghorn Leghorn: Match?
[Gives him a match]

Foghorn Leghorn: Here you are boy, now don't set the world on fire.

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Jack Walsh: [into the phone] ... I'm calling to tell you though that you're a dead mother ****er, you understand me?

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Jimmy Serrano: Is this moron number one? Put moron number two on the phone.

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Jimmy Serrano: You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a ****in' pencil. Do you understand me?

Tony Darvo: You got it, Jimmy.

Joey: Hey, Tony... he ain't mad at me, is he?

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Joe Buck: It just ain't right cheatin' from a pregnant lady.

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Jonathan Mardukas: Did she hurt you, Jack?

Jack Walsh: Yeah, she did.

Jonathan Mardukas: I'm sorry.

Jack Walsh: What're you sorry about?

Jonathan Mardukas: I'm sorry you're hurt.

Jack Walsh: I'm not hurt.

Jonathan Mardukas: You just said you were hurt.

Jack Walsh: I'm not hurt.

Jonathan Mardukas: I just asked you if you were hurt and you said Yeah, I'm hurt.

Jack Walsh: That's because you made me say that.

Jonathan Mardukas: Jack, you're a grown man. You're in control of your own words.

Jack Walsh: You're goddamn right I am. Now here come two words for you: Shut the **** up.

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Kate: Break a leg!

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Lacy: He likes ALL types.

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Max: The best thing to do is to get your ass out of here. Best way that you can.

Billy Hayes: Yeah, but how?

Max: Catch the midnight express.

Billy Hayes: But what's that?

Max: [laughs] Well it's not a train. It's a prison word for... escape. But it doesn't stop around here.

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Monica: I felt like a bimbo in a slasher movie screaming like that.

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Monica: I felt like a bimbo in cheap horror film.

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Nick Mason: Diamonds, Gorgeous.

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Rocky Barnes: Miss Mallory... Do you mind if I call you Kate?

Katharine Mallory: You might as well. I've a feeling you'll get around to it in a minute anyway.

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Towny: Oh, Joe it's... it's so difficult, I - You're a nice person, Joe, I- I- I should never have asked you up here, you're... You're a lovely person, really. Oh, God, I loathe life, I loathe it! Please go, please.

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Captain Midnight: When do they fire the next rocket?
Steve Darby: Tomorrow morning. And by tomorrow night, if I don't recover it, they'll be firing *me*.

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Detective Carter: [about the butler's body] Is he dead?

Inspector Taylor: No.... It's his day off.

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Inspector Taylor: [When new evidence comes out] And nobody knew anything about this murder, eh? I wouldn't be surprised to find another body you've all forgotten about.

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