Richard Devon: Jody Barker

Quotes 

• Yancy Derringer : Major... what is Mr. Barker in for, sir?

  Major Alvin : Trying to steal about fifty thousand dollars.

  Yancy Derringer : Jody, you didn't.

  Jody Barker : I lost my head, Yancy.

  Yancy Derringer : Well, next time you stick to picking pockets.

  Jody Barker : I was just a weak vessel, Yance, but I never saw so much loot in all my life - bags and bags of long green all piled up. I just couldn't help myself.

• [Jody has just picked Major Alvin's pocket] 

  Yancy Derringer : Jody, what amazes me is how you go about getting by all the buttons on a uniform.

  Jody Barker : Oh, Yancy, even an amateur knows a soldier doesn't carry his wallet upstairs. He sticks it in his hip pocket.

• [examining the money in Major Alvin's wallet] 

  Jody Barker : It's as queer as the 30th of February.

• Yancy Derringer : [to Alvin]  You should never leave a piece of your past in your wallet, which obviously you haven't even missed.

  Madame Francine : Jody, again?

  Yancy Derringer : Well, in this instance you should be proud of him, Francine. He was gathering evidence on the side of the law.

  Jody Barker : Gee, I hope Mother never finds out.