Tim Rourke Quotes in Blonde for a Day (1946)

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Tim Rourke Quotes:

  • [last lines]

    Phyllis Hamilton: Tim, notice anything strange about Mike?

    Tim Rourke: No. What?

    Phyllis Hamilton: This is the first time he ever got through a case without being laid out like a rug.

    Michael Shayne: Let me tell you one thing - nobody ever lays Mike Shayne out like a rug!

    [a nurse entering Tim's room slams the door into Mike's head, knocking him out]

    Tim Rourke: [talking on the telephone] Give me the Admission desk... Send another bed up to Room 216.

  • [Tim is rummaging through Phyllis' desk]

    Michael Shayne: What are you looking for?

    Tim Rourke: Bodies.

    Michael Shayne: Oh, the janitor probably swept them out this morning.

  • [Phyllis and Tim are standing in the middle of the wreckage of what used to be Mike's office]

    Phyllis Hamilton: What a mess.

    Tim Rourke: Yeah, Mike seems to be on the wrong side of this case - they're bringing the fight to him!

  • Tim Rourke: Hey, Mike. You're still holding out. Why? Don't you trust a federal agent or are you gambling with Phyll's life to cut yourself in on the deal?

    Michael Shayne: Is that the way it looks to you?

    Tim Rourke: Yeah.

    Michael Shayne: You better get yourself a pair of glasses.

  • [last lines]

    [with the case wrapped up, Tim slugs Mike]

    Tim Rourke: I hated to do that Mike.

    Michael Shayne: That's all right. I had it coming.

  • Chief Boyle: Hey, Rafferty, this is for you.

    [Boyle hands Rafferty a note from Mike]

    Tim Rourke: Read it - if you can.

  • [Mike sends Tim to rent a large car to transport an inconvenient corpse away from his office]

    Tim Rourke: I don't know why the guy picks on me. There are so many good guys to get for this job. There's Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolfman...

  • Chief Gentry: What's on your mind, Tim?

    Tim Rourke: Oh, nothing much. Just lookin' for news.

    Chief Gentry: Well, I'm awful sorry to disappoint you but we haven't had a homicide or a murder since about 11:15 last night.

    Tim Rourke: That's fine. How do you expect us to sell newspapers?

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