The Rockford Files (TV Series)

Paradise Cove (1979)

Stuart Margolin: Angel Martin

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Quotes 

• Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : Good idea, Jim, except I thought you oughta know that if you try to take off with my share of the treasure, I'll take old Joe here as a hostage.

  Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2 : [shakes his cane at him]  Now you just try and old Joe will stove your head in!

• Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : [trying to sound menacing]  Hey, buckaroo, I don't let nobody outta my sight. This is the big one! This is the big score! I don't sleep. I sit on my blanket with my gun on my lap and I keep an eye on you all night long...

  Jim Rockford : [unimpressed, he looks at Althea Morgan]  Yeah, Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt; terrific ending. Almost everybody ate a bullet!

• Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : [curled up in the sand groaning]  Jimmy! Jim-m-my!

  Jim Rockford : [crouches down beside him and slaps him on the shoulder unsympathetically]  Hey, wanna come out now?

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : Jimmy, oh Jimmy, they hit me, Jim...!

  Jim Rockford : Yeah, that's what it looked like to me too. You okay?

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : ...I don't know... I... maybe I oughta talk to my attorney before I give a quick answer...

• Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : [Jim uses Althea's car to go check at the nursing home, if he can get any more information on where the gold C.C. Calloway's looking for might be buried. Along with Jim, and Althea's, in the middle-front, is - who else? Angel]  Why'd you have to bring her along?

  Althea Morgan : [Stops laughing, momentarily]  I'm here to protect my car. That's a condition of the loan.

  [Althea starts laughing again] 

  Jim Rockford : All right, you 2 stay here.

  [Althea continues laughing] 

  Jim Rockford : I'll go in and look around.

  [Jim turns to Angel and Althea, and in an admonishing tone, says] 

  Jim Rockford : and 'stay here,' means stay here.

  [Althea bursts in to laughter , as Angel just looks at her] 

  Althea Morgan : He's really different.

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : He's a sucker.

  Althea Morgan : [Giggling]  Yeah, but he's a nice sucker.

• Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : [jaw drops at the sight of his totalled lemon]  Look what you did to Lucille, my '59 cherry Cad convertible. It's a collectors item!

  Jim Rockford : Yeah, you oughta collect it on fifty bucks!

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : You can't even get body work on it now!