Zeke Kelso Quotes in That Darn Cat! (1965)

Zeke Kelso: You mean you want me to tail the cat as if he's a person?

Supervisor, Mr. Newton: Unless it would be easier to tail him as a cat.

Ingrid Randall: Say!

Patti Randall: Shush!

Ingrid Randall: What do you mean shush? This is my room!

Zeke Kelso: Patti! I'm gonna have to ask you to quiet down, and that goes for you too!

[first meeting of Zeke Kelso & Ingrid Randall]

Zeke Kelso: Why, hello there.

Ingrid Randall: Who are you! How do you get off telling me to be quiet in my own room!

[Zeke Kelso then pulled out his FBI badge, to show to show it to Ingrid Marshall]

Ingrid Randall: What's this thing supposed to be, I don't know anything about that stuff.

Zeke Kelso: Miss Randall, I'm afraid you underestimate me. We shall proceed with the pawprinting.

Patti Randall: Gadzooks, you're bleeding!

Zeke Kelso: Oh, it's nothing, probably just an artery.

Zeke Kelso: Do you have any regulars, or people going in and out of the house all the time?

Patti Randall: Father always complained that we were running a rehab center for punch-drunk juveniles.

Patti Randall: [Canoe was knocking on Patti's front door, while Zeke was being pawprinting DC] Oh, Canoe!

Zeke Kelso: [Zeke Kelso then thought Patti asked "Can you"? after hearing Patti say Canoe's name] Can I what?

Zeke Kelso: [just after walking into drive-in] I bet you've got a lot of mice, in here.

Drive-in Manager: Sir, a mouse is no more permitted in here, than a man without a car.

Zeke Kelso: So, this is the

[sneeze]

Zeke Kelso: "informant", as we say down at the office.

Patti Randall: [accent] This is Daphne Hofstedder speaking, of Hofstedder's Jewelry Store, 1833 West Mapleton Avenue.

Zeke Kelso: Yes, Miss Hofstedder, how may I help you?

Patti Randall: [accent] I heard you were looking for information, concerning a certain watch.

Zeke Kelso: Yes, we are.

Patti Randall: [accent] Well, a couple of weeks ago, a woman came into the shop, to buy a band, for her watch. Uh, what was the name? Oh, Miss Margaret Miller.

Zeke Kelso: Margaret Miller? Will you describe this band you sold to Miss Miller?

Patti Randall: [accent] Seventeen jewels, rather rectangular shaped, with raised filigree... things on the face.

Zeke Kelso: Rectangular with raised filigree. Miss Hofstedder, may I ask why you haven't come forward earlier, with this information?

Patti Randall: [accent] Well, I was away on my holiday... to Mexico... on a bus.

Zeke Kelso: Will you be in town, Miss Hofstedder?

Patti Randall: [accent] Yes. I'll be here anytime you want to talk to me, on the phone.

Zeke Kelso: Thank you very much for your information. Goodbye.

[Zeke Kelso then hung up telephone]

Zeke Kelso: [Patti's phone call restarted Zeke Kelso's temporarily stopped job of following DC Randall that lead to the rescue of kidnapped banker Margaret Miller, later in the same evening and solved the FBI issue]

[after seeing DC again]

Iggy: [happily] Hey, fella, where did you come from, huh? I got a little business to do, then I'll give you some milk.

Dan: [by DC's collar, after DC went in the apartment building, Zeke Kelso located Margaret Miller's kidnappers, hearing Dan's remark] Get rid of that cat, go in and finish her off.

Iggy: Think it's better to do the job here, or in the truck?

Dan: Here. So we don't have to fight her down the stairs.

Zeke Kelso: This is it Control, 1-3-2 Eighth Street.

[Zeke Kelso spoke out the house number, 132 almost like spelling, saying the numerals slowly as one-three-two: 132 Eighth Street]

Supervisor, Mr. Newton: Kelso, you hold off 'til we get there.

Zeke Kelso: [upon hearing Margaret Miller's voice] I can't wait sir. I've got a situation, that's breaking wide open.

Zeke Kelso: [looking under Ingrid Mershall's bed] That

[sneeze]

Zeke Kelso: cat!

[after first evening of following DC, DC lead the four agents, Spires, Graham, Kelly & Cahill back to the Randall's home]

[speaking in Old English, to 4 FBI agents: Spires, Graham, Graham & Cahill, as Kelso is informing them that DC is a cat that may trail the two criminals]

Zeke Kelso: Whither he goest, you will go.

[Patti picked up the spare micrphoned cat collar and takes Ingrid to another room, in their house, for Zeke Kelso to find her, with the FBI locating device]

Ingrid Randall: [Ingrid speaking with microphoned spare cat collar] Mister Kelso... if you don't mind, let's get going.

Zeke Kelso: Be patient, it's not nine o'clock yet.

Ingrid Randall: [just as Zeke Kelso sneezed] Let's get going.

Zeke Kelso: [Zeke Kelso acted as he thought the cat really spoke English] Now, wait a minute. Let's pull ourselves together, here a minute.

Ingrid Randall: [louder and angrily] Patti, you little wretch, let m out of here, I'm suffocating!

Zeke Kelso: Oh.

Ingrid Randall: [Ingrid angrily pounds on the closet door] Hey!

[Ingrid pounds on the closet door again]

Ingrid Randall: Let me out of here!

Zeke Kelso: I'll get you out. Patti's gone to the movies.

Ingrid Randall: Gone to the movies?

Zeke Kelso: There's something that seems to be stuck here.

Ingrid Randall: Well, open it. There's no air, I'm suffocating!

Zeke Kelso: Yeah, well don't worry, I'll go get a screwdriver.

Ingrid Randall: I'm suffocating! Get me out of here!

Zeke Kelso: [DC starts to leave the house] I'm sorry, I've got to follow it.

Ingrid Randall: Don't you dare follow that cat! Let me out of here! There's no air!

Zeke Kelso: I'll be back. Probably just an hour or two. Lie down on the floor, there's usually more air down there.

[Zeke Kelso then tried waving air through the door, to Ingrid]

Ingrid Randall: I'm gonna scream!

Zeke Kelso: Worst thing you can do. It uses up all the air.

Kipp MacDougall(Mrs. MacDougall): [Ingrid Marshall screamed extremely loud and hard] I distinctly heard a woman scream.

Wilbur MacDougall(Mr. MacDougall): Right.

[Wilbur MacDougall grabbed Kipp MacDougall's arm to keep her at the kitchen sink]

Wilbur MacDougall(Mr. MacDougall): If you don't keep away, you're going to hear another.

Zeke Kelso: [DC left the house, while Zeke Kelso on dis-connecting the closet door hinges, that Ingrid was apparently locked in] Okay, push.

[the closet door opens, knocking Zeke Kelso onto the bed, behind him]

Zeke Kelso: I'd have that latched fixed. Especially, if you go in there a lot. Excuse me, but I've got to run. I just hope I haven't lost the cat.

Ingrid Randall: [as Ingrid catches her breath, she speaks irately] Go ahead and follow that cat. And when you find him, do me a favor. The both of you just stay there!

Zeke Kelso: [shortly after Zeke Kelso freed Ingrid Marshall from the locked closet, he starts his search for DC, and DC is next to a motor cylist, that is about to start the engine] Oh!

[Zeke Kelso's remark was from the motorcycle starting]

Zeke Kelso: [the motorcycle driver, starting its engine almost broke, injured or deafened Zeke Kelso's ear drum]