Peter Gunn (TV Series)

The Kill (1958)

Craig Stevens: Peter Gunn

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• Peter Gunn : [narrating]  The good and the bad of Al Fusary are a matter of record, and as far as I'm concerned it was mostly bad, but any way you look at it, he was unique - the last of a rare breed to crawl out of a bathtub full of bootleg gin, grabbed a submachine gun and made the Twenties roar. By the truest measure of the underworld, he was a real big shot, and unlike his contemporaries, who ended up in a sack or on a garage floor on Valentine's Day, he beat the odds and lasted until he was a little bit over 60, and he was a big shot all the way. For thirty years the undisputed vice lord of his own personal empire. He was unique - and he was dead.

• [angry that the police won't arrest a gangster, Gunn threatens to exact his own revenge] 

  Lieutenant Jacoby : Pete, I'll go after you as fast as I go after Fallon.

  Peter Gunn : Then I've got nothing to worry about.

• [Lieutenant Jacoby spots Gunn at a gangster's funeral] 

  Lieutenant Jacoby : What are you doing here?

  Peter Gunn : I get around - picnics, fish fries, funerals...

• George Fallon : Did you also hear that I've taken over?

  Peter Gunn : I've heard.

  George Fallon : Then you know I'm planning some changes. You could be one of them. Goodbye, Mr. Gunn.

• Edie Hart : Is it true what they say about you?

  Peter Gunn : What do they say?

  Edie Hart : Pete Gunn for hire.

  Peter Gunn : True.

  Edie Hart : Well, I've saved up a few dollars. I'll buy you a late steak.

• Peter Gunn : Tell Fallon Peter Gunn wants to see him.

  Gangster : Peter - go pick a peck of peppers.

• George Fallon : I can see one your foremost accomplishments is sticking your nose in where it doesn't belong.

  Peter Gunn : She's a friend.

  George Fallon : She should be more discriminating.

• [last lines] 

  Peter Gunn : Hello, sweetheart.

  Mother : What's the matter? Don't you have a home?

  Peter Gunn : Maid's night out.

• Peter Gunn : Nice guy, Emmett. You could do worse.

  Edie Hart : I always do.

• Dave Green : What are you gonna do?

  Peter Gunn : Kill you. Sooner or later, that phone's gonna ring. If Mother's dead, so are you.

• Peter Gunn : [narrating]  Sometimes you get lucky. You take a chance on a bluff and it pays off.