Banacek (TV Series)

No Stone Unturned (1973)

George Peppard: Thomas Banacek

Quotes 

• Thomas Banacek : There's on old Polish proverb that says, "Only the centipede can hear all the hundred footsteps of his uncle."

  Jay Drury : [chuckling]  Yeah. Heh-heh. Uh-oh.

  Thomas Banacek : What's the matter?

  Jay Drury : That's the first one of those things I... I ever understood.

• Davey Collier : Banacek - that's, uh, Polish, ain't it?

  Thomas Banacek : Right. Collier - that's Anglo-Saxon, isn't it?

  Davey Collier : So what?

  Thomas Banacek : I thought you wanted to exchange ethnic origins.

• Davey Collier : Okay, you're so bright, Banacek, suppose you tell me what happened here. My own security department can't even find their way to the bathroom.

  Vince O'Hara : Wait...

  Thomas Banacek : I'll do my best - about the statue, I mean. Your security men are on their own.

• Thomas Banacek : You know, you always remind me of a little boy who *didn't* cry "wolf."

  Henry DeWitt : I like the "boy" part.

  Thomas Banacek : I mean it. The more you say you don't have anything, the more I believe you almost got it cracked. It's a great con.

• Davey Collier : What're you doing here?

  Thomas Banacek : We just pushed B for basement and here we are.

• Carlie Kirkland : [suddenly shouting in public]  *Check into a motel with you? What for?*

  Thomas Banacek : [unfazed]  Not bad.

  Carlie Kirkland : That's for patronizing me.

  Thomas Banacek : You know, we could work together on this thing.

  Carlie Kirkland : Not in a million years.

  Thomas Banacek : *Fifty dollars! You've got to be kidding*

• Thomas Banacek : If you're gonna give commands, you've got to develop more authority.

• Gretel : Oh, my name's Gretel.

  Thomas Banacek : Between the two of us, we've got a whole name.

• Gretel : Well, I have to get rid of an early date. Is that okay with you?

  Thomas Banacek : If it's okay with *him*.