Night Court (TV Series)

Dan's Boss (1985)

Daniel Frishman: District Attorney Vincent Daniels

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• Dan Fielding : You're taking me back?

  Vincent Daniels : Yes. Because I think you're being sincere. Also, I've seen your conviction record. You're good.

  [Dan looks gratified] 

  Vincent Daniels : But most of all I'm taking you back because it will give me the opportunity to make your life a LIVING HELL! You think you're a tough customer? Well, move over, Buster! Because I'm the toughest, I'm the meanest, I'm the nastiest little man God ever put on this earth! I'm going to make you run, I'm going to make you jump, I am going to make you slither on the ground like a snake!

  Dan Fielding : GOD BLESS YOU!

  [Dan hugs him, then leaves] 

  Vincent Daniels : I don't understand him.

  Harry Stone : Neither do I. But together we can have some fun abusing him until we do.

• Dan Fielding : Look, I am sorry you were born... that way.

  Vincent Daniels : That's exactly what my father said. Just before he left.

  Harry Stone : Your father left?

  Vincent Daniels : I guess it was rough on him. His friends' sons played baseball. His carried the water bucket. His friends' sons played football. His carried the water bucket. To this day, I go crazy every time I go by a drinking fountain!

• Vincent Daniels : Oh, uh, Fielding? Got any spare change for the vending machine? I'm a little... short right now.

  [Dan trembles, on the verge of an explosion] 

  Vincent Daniels : Did you hear me, Fielding? I said, I'm a little... *short* right now. Anything you'd care to say?

  [Dan tears off a piece of paper and wads it into his mouth, screams around it, then rushes out of the room] 

• [to District Attorney Daniels, a midget] 

  Dan Fielding : Vincent, I am truly sorry for everything that I said and did. You may shoot me in the vital organ of your choice.

  Vincent Daniels : Apology accepted. I'll get back to you on which organ.

• Dan Fielding : You mean your father walked out on you just because you were... petite?

  Vincent Daniels : The night before he left, I heard him tell my mother that it was his fault. He said that I was a punishment from God. But my mother was a intelligent and caring woman. And she finally explained it to me, that it wasn't my inadequacies he couldn't deal with.

  [He looks Dan square in the eye] 

  Vincent Daniels : It was his own.