Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

No Accounting for Murder (1987)

Barney Martin: NYPD Lt. Timothy Hanratty

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• [last lines] 

  NYPD Lt. Timothy Hanratty : Oh, no, oh.

  Jessica Fletcher : Timothy, what is it?

  NYPD Lt. Timothy Hanratty : Some thievin' bugger's pinched me new hat.

• Paul Carlisle : [Lt. Timothy Hanratty has been interrogating Paul Carlisle regarding the murder of Ralph Whitman, to whom he referred as his "close personal friend".]  Lt., if there's nothing else, I'd like to get back to my office.

  NYPD Lt. Timothy Hanratty : Oh, then you'll be open today after the death of your "close personal friend"?

  Paul Carlisle : Lt., I'm an accountant, not a sentimentalist.

• NYPD Lt. Timothy Hanratty : [Irish homicide detective Lt. Hanratty is questioning an employee of the accounting firm where a murder occurred, trying to convince her there's no ghost in the walls.]  Now, now, there's no such thing as ghosts. Banshees maybe, and of course there's the little people, but no ghosts.