Harry O (TV Series)

Double Jeopardy (1975)

Anthony Zerbe: Lt. K.C. Trench

Quotes 

• Harry Orwell : [Finds Lt. Trench sitting alone in a courtroom, looking down]  You lose a big one?

  Lt. K.C. Trench : No, we won. Defendant was convicted.

  Harry Orwell : How come you don't look happy about it?

  Lt. K.C. Trench : Well, I just work here. Don't I? Defendant was a woman, 24 years old. Probably weighed 95 lbs. She wasn't very pretty. For six years she was married to a man who punched her out once or twice a week, every week, for six years. And finally she couldn't take it anymore. She emptied a .38 into him. So today she was convicted. Punched out one more time. Big triumph for the homicide division, big triumph for the district attorney's office, big triumph for the city, and the state, and the whole free world.

  [pause] 

  Lt. K.C. Trench : What do you want, Orwell?

• Harry Orwell : The big wheels get the grease, right, Trench?

  Lt. K.C. Trench : Orwell, I don't know what kind of cop you were, but I do know what kind I am. And my kind of cop gets very angry at cracks like that. And when I'm angry, Orwell, I'm not nice.

• Harry Orwell : And I want to apologize for that remark I made the other day. I was out of line.

  Lt. K.C. Trench : That's right. You were.