Get Smart (TV Series)

The Mess of Adrian Listenger (1970)

Pat Paulsen: 'Ace' Weems

Quotes 

• Chief : Listenger is the only man on that baseball team who failed to become a Control agent.

  Ace Weems : Yeah, but he succeeded into becoming something else.

  Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 : What was that?

  Ace Weems : A really great murderer.

  [pause] 

  Ace Weems : A really, top-notch murderer. One of the great murderers of all time. Which, really, he was not an ordinary murderer, he was a murderer's murderer I would say. You know, not one you'd meet every day at the store...

• Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 : Well, you forgot one thing, my friend. Adrian Listenger was hard of hearing.

  Ace Weems : [cocking his head toward Max]  ... What?

• Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 : Just a minute, Listenger, there's one thing I'd like to know: why did you kill all those Control agents on the baseball team?

  Ace Weems : Because you guys were mean to me and cruel to me and you were always throwing baseballs at me.

  Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 : But you were the catcher!