Flipper (TV Series)

Past Tense (1996)

Colleen Flynn: Dr. Pamela Blondel

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Dr. Keith Ricks : Grab your recorder - let's see what the dolphins are saying.

  Pamela Blondel : The same thing they're always saying - what I couldn't do with an opposable thumb.

• Pamela Blondel : Did it ever occur to you that there are other men out there that a woman could fall in love with?

  Dr. Keith Ricks : There are?

• Bobby Grimes : I'm Bobby Grimes... that's right, Keith, Pam - I'm Carl's little brother.

  Pamela Blondel : [to Keith]  Let's go.

  Bobby Grimes : Hey, lady, don't you want to hear how Carl's doin'?

  Pamela Blondel : Look, your brother murdered a man and held my son hostage. I hope he's rotting in prison.

  Bobby Grimes : Well, he's rotting okay - but not in prison. Carl's dead.

• [Keith's plan to lure Grimes into a trap falls apart when Pam stows away on his boat] 

  Pamela Blondel : What are you going to do?

  Dr. Keith Ricks : I'm going to get Alexis and the kids out of there. She's a graduate student in marine biology. You need at least a Ph.D. to fight bad guys.

• [last lines] 

  Alexis : Hey, where are the kids?

  Pamela Blondel : They're at the video store renting some Batman episodes.

  [Alexis gags] 

  Pamela Blondel : What? No, what? I liked them old 60s TV shows. They're great.

  Dr. Keith Ricks : Yeah.

  Officer Cliff Bethers : The Wild Wild West!

  Dr. Keith Ricks : My favorite was the one with the ranger. He had two sons...

  Pamela Blondel : Oh! Oh, no. Oh, that's easy, right. Oh-oh-oh. Whoa, what's the name of it?

  [Alexis starts laughing] 

  Pamela Blondel : Oh, you're too young. Ummm...