The Golden Girls (TV Series)

The Case of the Libertine Belle (1991)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

Quotes 

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : I think I see now how it happened: Last evening at dinner, when Miss MacGlinn saw Blanche give Kendall Nesbitt her key she was furious. She dropped a steak knife into her purse...

  Sophia Petrillo : Big deal. I took a whole place setting.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [angrily]  Not NOW, Ma!

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [comes up behind Sophia and holds a knife at her throat]  A throat... a throat is almost always cut from behind.

  Sophia Petrillo : Not part of the show, people! Not part of the show!

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Being right handed, I would slash from left to right, but since the knife was found to the left of the victim, we can deduce that the murderer is left handed. Notice that Gloria like most left handed people wears her wristwatch on her right wrist!

• Sophia Petrillo : Come on, Dorothy, you can figure this out, just like you solved the mystery downstairs at dinner.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh Ma, that was a game, this is life!

  Sophia Petrillo : Oh yeah, you've never been good at life.

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Blanche are you kidding? I have read every word Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler ever wrote. Sam Spade and Philip Marlow have become a part of me... "She had more curves than the Monaco grand prix and was twice as dangerous. Her jewelry was mute testimony that Charlie Chaplin wasn't the only tramp who hit it big in this town."

  Sophia Petrillo : You do this on first dates don't you Dorothy?

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Morning, Ma. How'd you sleep?

  Sophia Petrillo : Pretty good. I dreamed I was making love to Jay Leno

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : That's a strange dream for you to have.

  Sophia Petrillo : Not really. It was Monday night and he was filling in for Carson.

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Perhaps. But they are both murderers.

  Sophia Petrillo : Sit down, Dorothy. Don't make a fool of yourself.

  Marlowe : You care to explain?

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : In the first place, it is unlikely that Gloria murdered her father. Statistics show that patricide is overwhelmingly a male crime, although daughters frequently murder their mothers!