Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

Hit, Run and Homicide (1984)

Angela Lansbury: Jessica Fletcher

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Jessica Fletcher : Daniel!

  Daniel O'Brien : Jessica, what are you doing? You nearly ran into me.

  Jessica Fletcher : Don't you have that a little bit backwards?

  Daniel O'Brien : I guess I do.

• Jessica Fletcher : [at the Founder's Day picnic]  Well, how does this sound? "Captain Joshua Wayne, a free-spirited adventurer who seized opportunities wherever he could find them."

  Lois : Jessica, he was a pirate.

  Jessica Fletcher : Well. I'm trying to state that as delicately as I can.

  Lois : You don't have to do that. We've always been very proud of Captain Wayne and his Yankee gumption.

  Jessica Fletcher : And nobody cares that he fought on the British side in the Revolutionary War?

  Lois : [shocked]  He didn't?

  Jessica Fletcher : He most certainly did!

  Lois : [grabs Jessica's arm and lowers her voice]  Jessica, you certainly can't let that get around.

• [last lines] 

  Capt. Ethan Cragg : I'm sorry to eat and run, Jess, but they're having a tournament on that arcade game, and since I am the current record holder, I feel obliged to defend my title.

  Jessica Fletcher : Well, dishes can wait. Would you mind if I competed?

  Capt. Ethan Cragg : You? It really would be kind of a waste of a good quarter.

  Jessica Fletcher : Well, maybe. But I better warn you. I've been practicing a little.

  Capt. Ethan Cragg : Practicing? How much practicing?