Harry O (TV Series)

Accounts Balanced (1974)

David Janssen: Harry Orwell

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Harry Orwell : Looking back on that day, I realize I would have been dead now if I'd been a better mechanic.

• Harry Orwell : The facts are often poor servants of the truth.

• Harry Orwell : [voiceover]  Now maybe I shouldn't have let it bother me. I've been around too long not to know what the world's really like. A lot of married men have affairs. I guess I just didn't want to believe Anne's husband was one of them. I kept asking myself how he afforded that apartment. And then I told myself to forget it; it was not my kind of problem.

• Anne Virdon : Well, what do they call this in detective novels, a "meet"?

  Harry Orwell : Well, I don't know, I never read 'em.

• Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan : [Harry enjoying a tequila in a Mexican restaurant, approached by Manny]  Harry?

  Harry Orwell : Hello, Manny. How'd you find me?

  Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan : It's my job.

  Harry Orwell : Sit down. Ya wanna hear how I hurt my head?

  Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan : No, but now that you brought it up...

  Harry Orwell : An alligator bit me.

  Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan : I don't think I asked you, but if I did, forget it.

• Harry Orwell : [voiceover]  Galveston looked like a nice town. I reminded myself to come back someday, but under different circumstances.