The Rockford Files (TV Series)

The Dog and Pony Show (1977)

Howard Honig: Dr. Alan J. Adler

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : I'm just glad the Agency didn't find out about my gun running days because of all this. I could have been in big trouble. I can't say anything more.

  [Rockford looks on, bewildered] 

  Dr. Alan J. Adler : Don't give into your fears of other people and stop concocting these phony stories that evade the real issues of your life.

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : I don't have to make up phony stories. Didn't you hear what I said? I said I was glad the Agency closed the books on us. Otherwise they might have found out about the time I was running guns down to the rebels in Guatemala, me and another guy, dead now.

  [while Angel talks agents of the NIA are outside in a van, listening and recording him while he talks] 

  Evelyn 'Angel' Martin : That's right. We used to buy these Italian carbines from this contact in Mexico and then we'd sneak them across the border in ambulances and sell them to the guerrillas in Guatemala. Got twice for what we paid for them. That's right. The guns were rickety old things that would blow up in your face if you shot them or just sneezed...

  [End theme music begins]