Mike Hammer (TV Series)

A Grave Undertaking (1958)

Darren McGavin: Mike Hammer

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• [first lines] 

  Mike Hammer : [narrating]  When you're alone in a graveyard you have many thoughts - when you're alone in graveyard and not dead, that is. I was wired and jumpy. Doing a single at one a.m. in a marble orchard isn't the best recipe for steady nerves.

• Ethel Fleetwood : I knew you weren't fooled by that love letter routine. Obviously, you're a man who knows his way around.

  Mike Hammer : That's funny, I had the same feeling about you.

• Mike Hammer : Yeah, I'll see you around noon.

  Ethel Fleetwood : Oh, you name the place.

  Mike Hammer : Right here. I want to see if Abner turns up in a cab or a coffin.

• Margaret Reed : This girl, Sandra, is she involved?

  Mike Hammer : She's part of the kidnap gang. Somebody double-crossed her and she thought she could sing her way out. Well, she didn't get past the verse.

  Abner Reed : Oh, you mean she's been arrested?

  Mike Hammer : No. She's on a slab in the morgue.

• Trina Greco : I don't know. She's been acting strange the last couple of days.

  Mike Hammer : What do you mean - strange?

  Trina Greco : Well, she wouldn't say who she'd been going out with or where she was going or anything and we talk about men, you know, just like you talk about us.

  Mike Hammer : No foolin'?

• Mike Hammer : How could he have met Sandra Mantell?

  Ethel Fleetwood : Oh, well, he knows every chorus line on 52nd Street.

  Mike Hammer : Yeah, but that doesn't prove a thing.

  Ethel Fleetwood : Proof? But, darling, that's your department. After all, I'm just painting the picture.

• [last lines] 

  [Mike eyes the girls from Trina's chorus line] 

  Trina Greco : See anything you like?

  Mike Hammer : Aw, no, I was just window shopping.

  Trina Greco : I'll be right back, so keep your hands on the counter.