Mod Squad (TV Series)

A Reign of Guns (1969)

Michael Cole: Pete Cochran

Quotes 

• Van Marney : [Sculpting a bust of his father]  It's amazing. When his father found the steamship company things were so simple. You hired a man, paid him what he deserved. A fair wage for a good day's work.

  Linc Hayes : The good old days, Mr. Marney?

  Van Marney : Quite. Before the day of the anarchist, the agitator. Nobody told you whom to hire, what to pay them. There was no bargaining with rabble. A man earned the dollar or he did not. Simple.

  Linc Hayes : And if there was no job he went hungry.

  Pete Cochran : Are we here to talk about business or philosophy?

  Van Marney : How does one really separate the two?

• Van Marney : I think you already know what's happening here.

  Linc Hayes : It doesn't take Einstein. A storehouse full of weapons, combat training, blue-eyed Nordic types. You're starting your own private army.

  Van Marney : Somebody has to.

  Pete Cochran : You gonna save the world, Marney?

  Van Marney : What's worth saving.

  Pete Cochran : That's Hitler's theme, a little variation.

  Van Marney : Now you're bright, very bright. Can't you see what's happening to this country? In this country?

  Linc Hayes : Yeah, loud and clear.

  Van Marney : It's strength being sapped by its lowest elements: militants, protesters, agitators, anarchists. Grisly people reducing a civilization to rubble. Sooner or later the explosion will come. They'll kill each other off.

  Pete Cochran : Somebody's got to pick up the pieces. Your little group?

  Van Marney : The Brotherhood.

  Linc Hayes : Twenty men?

  Van Marney : Twenty at a time. Trained here and sent to other parts of the country to train others. Would a membership of... ten thousand impress you?

  Linc Hayes : That's a lot of bedsheets.

  Van Marney : Oh, you're wrong. We're not anti anything. We're just pro-American. All open and above board.

• Pete Cochran : [Watching the weapons being loaded onto a truck]  That's a beautiful sight.

  Julie Barnes : Even more beautiful if all those guns were just dumped into the sea.

  Capt. Adam Greer : Yeah, in about two hours, Julie. The tug's waiting. Our tug.

  Julie Barnes : Wouldn't it be nice if all the guns in the world were on board?

  Linc Hayes : Wouldn't change anything. It's not the guns; it's the people who use them.