Mike Hammer (TV Series)
Jury of One (1959)
Darren McGavin: Mike Hammer
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Quotes
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Otto Tyler : I didn't think Sam Mayo was proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Mike Hammer : Oh Otto, Otto, in the face of all that evidence...
Otto Tyler : Circumstantial evidence.
Mike Hammer : All right! That wasn't enough for you, huh?
Otto Tyler : To send a man to his death? No!
Mike Hammer : You're not dealing with a man, Otto. You're dealing with vermin, dirt, lice...
Otto Tyler : But he wasn't on trial for that!
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Mike Hammer : There's a difference, a big fat difference, between being scared and being a coward.
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Mike Hammer : [narrating] I knew Mayo too well, and to know him was to hate him.
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Barney Green : Those private detective credentials aren't a hunting license and there's no open season on Sam Mayo!
Mike Hammer : You better knock it off, city boy. There's never a closed season on varmints.
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Mike Hammer : Now listen to me, Mayo. The cops have to use one hand on you because they have to hold the book in the other, but I can use two hands!
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Sam Mayo : You're barkin' up the wrong tree.
Mike Hammer : Maybe! But I'm about ready to stop barkin' and star bitin'.
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Mike Hammer : You know, O'Dell must be a pretty special customer if you serve him after hours.
Rita : Who says I did?
Mike Hammer : You says you did. You told the police that you served Jack O'Dell dinner here between the hours of 9:30 and 10 o'clock on April 16th.
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Jack O'Dell : Get off my back and stay off, Hammer.
Mike Hammer : What happens if I don't?
[pulls a pistol from his holster]
Jack O'Dell : This could make a pretty big hole in your future, Hammer.
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[last lines]
[although Mayo shot Otto in self-defense, Mike discovers the pistol Mayo used was the one used in a previous murder]
Otto Tyler : I don't know why I went after Mayo.
Mike Hammer : Don't worry about it, Otto. You were right all the time. Mayo was innocent of that murder. You got what you came for... but then, so did I. So did I.
