Barney Miller (TV Series)

Escape Artist (1975)

Roscoe Lee Browne: Charlie Evans Jeffers

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• Capt. Barney Miller : Here you are Mr. Jeffers,

  Charlie Evans Jeffers : Thank you Captain

  Capt. Barney Miller : You know, it's hard for me to understand how an intelligent man like you could allow himself to be parley to so much trouble

  Charlie Evans Jeffers : Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men

  Det. Ron Harris : This cat is dynamite... I'm gonna write that down

  Capt. Barney Miller : It appears you found yourself an admirer.

  Charlie Evans Jeffers : Do me a favor, don't tell him it comes from Aldous Huxley until l after I leave

  Capt. Barney Miller : You know, it seems to me that if you just stayed put all this time, you could avoid all this difficulty

  Charlie Evans Jeffers : No, I am by my nature an impatient man, Captain.

  Capt. Barney Miller : But, you are also a realist

  Charlie Evans Jeffers : Well, the secret of being able to serving time is to accept the circumstance, to resign yourself to the fact that escape is impossible. Well, the more I escaped, the more difficult it became to accept that philosophy. Prison became increasingly unbearable because it became increasingly unnecessary.

  Capt. Barney Miller : But you always got caught

  Charlie Evans Jeffers : Well nobody's perfect

  Capt. Barney Miller : What about this time ? Gonna try again ?

  Charlie Evans Jeffers : I don't know. It isn't nearly as interesting outside as it use to be. I suppose these last few escapes were merely for the sake of doing

  Capt. Barney Miller : Why don't you just sit it out for awhile, try for parole ?

  Charlie Evans Jeffers : Maybe I will this time, certainly the challenge is no longer there. Perhaps it's time, I'm gonna have to be practical and yes,very very bored.

• Charlie Evans Jeffers : No, it was inevitable. I suppose, I was even looking forward to it. My carelessness may well have been premeditated.

• Charlie Evans Jeffers : The years force a certain amount of wisdom upon you, whether you like it or not

• Capt. Barney Miller : Mr Jeffers, I was just talking to some of the reporters downstairs, they tell me, you spent 30 years in jail for stealing one automobile

  Charlie Evans Jeffers : It was one hell of a car

  Capt. Barney Miller : One to five grand larceny auto and twenty five years accumulated escape time

  Charlie Evans Jeffers : Compound Interest you might call it