Decoy (TV Series)

Stranglehold (1957)

Beverly Garland: Casey Jones

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• [last lines] 

  Casey Jones : [breaking the fourth wall]  There are 249 of us in the Department. We carry two things in common wherever we go - the shield, called a "pottsy", and a .32 revolver. We're New York's finest... we're police women.

• Casey Jones : Say, did I tell you what my name was? It's Doris Daniels.

  Molly Orchid : Mine's Molly Orchid.

  Casey Jones : Orchid? Like in the flower? Hey, that's real pretty!

  Molly Orchid : Not my real name. I just took it.

• Casey Jones : Molly, now listen to me, listen to me, Molly.

  Molly Orchid : I don't have to listen to you!

  Casey Jones : I think I know the truth, Molly.

  Molly Orchid : No, you don't. You don't know anything at all.

  Casey Jones : I think I know the truth about George.

  Molly Orchid : You can't, you don't.

  Casey Jones : You couldn't have met George tonight.

  Molly Orchid : No, no, no.

  Casey Jones : [Raises voice]  Because there isn't any George!

  Molly Orchid : No, no, no. Please.

  [Molly grabs Casey's hidden gun and aims it at her] 

  Molly Orchid : You said you were my friend!

  Casey Jones : I am your friend, Molly.

  Molly Orchid : No.

  Casey Jones : Now, Molly, listen to me.

  Molly Orchid : Are you a cop? You came here to hurt me.

  Casey Jones : I wouldn't hurt you, Molly.

  Molly Orchid : To put me in jail because of Mr. Lonsky.

  Casey Jones : What about Lonsky?

  Molly Orchid : He tried to hurt me, too.

  Casey Jones : Is that why you killed him?

  Molly Orchid : He came back and found me right over there by the table, he thought I was stealing but I wasn't, I was just looking. He had lots of pretty things from all over the world and all I wanted to do was look at them, you know?

  Casey Jones : I know.

  Molly Orchid : He said he was gonna call the police, except he said he wouldn't call them if I,

  [She pauses and rips off the window curtain] 

  Molly Orchid : I told him nobody kisses me but George, nobody! He tried to kiss me anyway. I tried to push him away but he wouldn't let me go, he hurt me with his hands, and then I had ahold of his neck. He wanted me to let him go so he could hurt me some more, but I wouldn't let him go, I wouldn't! Then he was dead, just like that, all limp and loose, I guess he didn't know how strong I was. I'm as strong as a man when I get mad. Anyway, why did you pretend to be my friend?

  Casey Jones : I only pretended to be somebody else, I was still your friend.

  Molly Orchid : You said there wasn't a George.

  Casey Jones : There isn't, Molly.

  Molly Orchid : Say there is!

  Casey Jones : Do you want me to tell you a lie?

  Molly Orchid : Say there's a George!

  Casey Jones : Molly, you know too, you know that there isn't any George. You don't really want me to tell you there is, because then it'd be a lie and friends don't lie. Not real friends, and I'm your real friend now.

  Molly Orchid : I'll shoot you.

  Casey Jones : Then you wouldn't have a friend anymore, would you Molly? And that's what counts, not a friend like George who doesn't exist, but a real friend.

  [Molly lowers the gun] 

  Casey Jones : May I have that gun, please?

• Lt. Andy Andrews : It'll to be your job to get close to her, let her lead us to George. When she does, you'll be right across the hall, right in Lonski's room.

  Casey Jones : Well, with the apartment situation the way it is then, a room's a room.