Barney Miller (TV Series)

Ms. Cop (1975)

Barbara Barrie: Elizabeth Miller

Quotes 

• Barney Miller : I'll go with you myself.

  Det. Janice Wentworth : Please, Captain Miller? You're gonna have to let me go some time.

  Barney Miller : What do you say, Fish?

  Fish : I'd like to, Barney, but it would kill Bernice if she found out I died in the company of another woman.

  Elizabeth Miller : Phil, that is just terrible!

  Fish : Okay, Wentworth, come on. But I'M driving.

• Elizabeth Miller : If people knew that Detective work was 90 % paperwork, they would never watch television

• Elizabeth Miller : This is a brochure from our travel agent about crossing on the SS France, it costs about $4,000 one way. Now, these are the three best hotels in Paris : The Plaza Athenee, The Bristol, and The Crillon. The villa in the South of France costs $1250 a week, then we fly back to Paris and then back to New York. That makes the whole thing cost about $26,000 for six weeks. Can we afford it ?

  Barney Miller : No

  Elizabeth Miller : Okay... How about taking me to lunch ?

  Barney Miller : You didn't have to go through all of that just to get me to take you to lunch.

  Elizabeth Miller : I thought you would be more excited about the idea if you thought I saved you $26,000 .

  Barney Miller : That's very considerate of you. Listen, you give up three more trips like that we're on easy street. Why'd you really come down ?

  Elizabeth Miller : I just wanted to see you. I spent a very meaningful morning with the other tenant's of the building discussing rent controls and building repairs. And then I bought David a pair of sneakers and then I read in the newspaper about a policemen getting killed in a bank robbery in Massachusetts and I just had an overpowering desire to have lunch with you

  Barney Miller : I see

  Elizabeth Miller : Besides, at the group-therapy session for law-enforcement wives, They suggested all of this.

  Barney Miller : I though they dealt with a more direct approach

  Elizabeth Miller : This week it's humor -- some imaginative joke or bright saying. Instead of sending it to the news and get $ 5, you send it to your husband and get lunch.

  Barney Miller : You got it !

  Elizabeth Miller : Thank you