Cannon (TV Series)

He Who Digs a Grave (1973)

David Janssen: Ian Kirk

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Quotes 

• Ian Kirk : It's 3:00 in the morning, Helen. If you came for the orgy, it's been called off.

• Clerk : [first lines] 

  Clerk : Fancy bottle, Mr. Kirk. Expensive too. Does that make the liquor taste better?

  Ian Kirk : As a matter of fact it does, to distinguish it from that sheep-dip you serve.

  Clerk : If you say so, Mr. Kirk, if you say so.

  [Ian starts to walk out of the store] 

  Clerk : Mr. Kirk, shall I charge it to Mrs. Kirk's account?

  Ian Kirk : I don't care what you do.

  Clerk : [Mrs. Kirk drives by the store in her Ferrari]  Lovely piece of machinery your wife drives, Mr. Kirk.

  Ian Kirk : Yes, twenty-eight thousand devalued dollars, the advantage of having a rich wife. She enjoys her hobbies...

  [he holds up his sack of booze] 

  Ian Kirk : ... I indulge mine.

• Ian Kirk : Her mother dead. Her father who didn't believe in anything but making money. Her husband who didn't believe in anything. Except maybe his writing. She believed in that. Till she wore it out. Irene wore out everything. Horses, cars, even Wade Gibson.

• Frank Cannon : If anybody ever owed anything to anybody, I owe it to you. You know how I feel.

  Ian Kirk : You don't owe me. You were a good shield.

• Ian Kirk : I've got this book inside of me. She couldn't understand that. Her father left her four and a half million dollars. Irene never had to work for anything in her life.

  Frank Cannon : So, she got bored. And she got involved. Is that the story?

  Ian Kirk : To the guy by the name of Wade Gibson. God's gift to women. You know big, husky, stupid.

• Martin Ross : I'm here simply to do whatever I can for you.

  Ian Kirk : What do you want to do, hold the rope?