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"The Professionals" The Acorn Syndrome (1980)

George Cowley: By the way, did you two pick up my desk?
Bodie: Ah, well, yes sir, we did.
Doyle: And we didn't.
George Cowley: You did and you didn't?
Doyle: Yeah...
Bodie: Yeah, well, we did the first time...
Doyle: But not the, uh, second time...

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Bodie: Don't look back!
Doyle: Why not?
Bodie: Cowley - he'll turn you into a pillar of salt!

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[Bodie and Doyle collected Cowley's valuable antique desk but it fell off the roof-rack of their car as they were chasing Coleman and Angadi]
George Cowley: I suppose you heard what these two did to my desk, McCabe?
McCabe: It's the talk of the department, sir.
George Cowley: Battered beyond recognition... minus its drawers.
McCabe: Nasty. On that evidence I'm surprised you don't charge them with rape!

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[Bodie and Doyle have been questioning a schoolgirl who knows Sandy Copeland]
Doyle: Thank you very much - you've been very helpful.
Bodie: Yeah, very. You know, when you leave here you ought to join the police force.
Nancy: No thanks. I used to watch Police Woman. Too fraught. There are easier ways of making a living.
Doyle: [eagerly] Oh - tell us.
Nancy: [facetiously] Marry a millionaire.

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