Knots Landing (TV Series)

Hitchhike: Part 2 (1980)

Claudia Lonow: Diana Fairgate

Quotes 

• Sid Fairgate : So, what were you saying, Richard?

  Richard Avery : I... I was just saying I wish Karen would let me handle this case. Look, I... I have an investigator on her.

  Karen Fairgate : You don't need an investigator to dig up her dirt. She's been broadcasting it all over town. "I'm no good, all right, but that doesn't mean I can be raped."

  Richard Avery : It's a neat gimmick, and it won't work.

  Karen Fairgate : It's working already. She's a media hero. She gives a great interview, "I'm trash, but I wanna be trash." And everybody says "What an honest girl." And honest Sid Fairgate is going right down the drain!

  [as Diana comes down the stairs:] 

  Karen Fairgate : Oh, Richard. Look... can't you get a criminal lawyer to work with you? Maybe... somebody in your firm?

  Richard Avery : Well, I guess it's time to play my ace in the hole.

  Karen Fairgate : What?

  Richard Avery : I spoke to the prosecutor. He's willing to deal.

  Karen Fairgate : To deal?

  Richard Avery : Mm-hmm. We take a fall on harassment and simple assault, and he'll throw out assault with intent to rape. And he'll out contributing to delinquency.

  Karen Fairgate : [annoyed tone]  You want Sid to plea-bargain?

  Richard Avery : It's done all the time.

  Karen Fairgate : [to Sid]  He wants you to plea-bargain.

  Richard Avery : Karen! Karen! Look, law is not an exact science. It's a discipline of the possible. I mean,

  [to Sid:] 

  Richard Avery : the DA doesn't wanna throw the book at you. But... you gotta give him something.

  Karen Fairgate : I don't believe this!

  Sid Fairgate : [tries to pacify]  Karen...

  Karen Fairgate : If you'd done your job to begin with!

  Richard Avery : I did it.

  Sid Fairgate : Now wait a minute... Wait just a second. Look... the fact is this. I gave that girl a lift for her own protection. Now she's trying to blackmail me. If we let her succeed in any way,

  [shakes his head] 

  Sid Fairgate : she's gonna try this again on somebody else.

  Richard Avery : Somebody else is not your problem.

  [packs up to leave] 

  Richard Avery : Sleep on it. I'll talk to you in the morning.

  Sid Fairgate : I don't have to sleep on it, Richard. I'm gonna fight *every* charge all the way.

  Richard Avery : Okay. You wanna be Don Quixote, I guess I'll just have to be your Pancho Sanchez.

  [heads for door] 

  Karen Fairgate : [to Sid, without conviction:]  I'm sure Richard will handle it. It'll be okay.

  [as Richard closes the door behind him:] 

  Karen Fairgate : Sancho Panza.

  Diana Fairgate : [from the stairs]  Why don't you do what Mr. Avery says, Daddy?

  Sid Fairgate : I can't.

  Diana Fairgate : *Why* can't you?

  Sid Fairgate : You heard the reasons.

  Diana Fairgate : I've also heard what that girl's been saying. I mean... it's all over town!

  Sid Fairgate : That's just why we have to fight this, to prove that what she says is not true.

  Diana Fairgate : But...

  [gives up and turns back towards her room]