Tales from the Darkside (TV Series)

Trick or Treat (Pilot) (1983)

Barnard Hughes: Gideon Hackles

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• Mr. Bindle : Why not hire a sales clerk for the store, Mr. Hackles? You can certainly afford help.

  Gideon Hackles : I can afford a lot of things I don't have... I don't want them... I don't need them... I don't trust clerks. Clerks are lazy, unreliable, clerks steal from you.

• Atticus Kimble : I've heard what you do to the children, Hackles.

  Gideon Hackles : I never harmed a single hair on a single head.

• Atticus Kimble : We won't be there tonight, Mr. Hackles.

  Gideon Hackles : Oh... maybe I better look at your records more carefully, perhaps the payments should be higher.

  Atticus Kimble : Go ahead, take the farm if that'll make you happy. I'd rather that than let my boy visit you tonight. I'm just surprised the others let their children do it.

  Gideon Hackles : Most people *make* their children do it.

• Gideon Hackles : Charge this to your account, Mr. Muldoon?

  Victor Muldoon : Yes, you know I can't pay cash.

  Gideon Hackles : [about Timmy's devil pitchfork]  Of course in my day we made our own costumes out of rags. I trust this means that Timothy will be with us tonight?

  Victor Muldoon : My Timmy's gonna find what he's looking for tonight, yes sir. I've toughened him up with me strap, I've toughened him up enough to beat you at your game, yes sir. Tomorrow morning the Muldoons is gonna be out of debt for the first time in history.