- Juliet Higgins: Can you kindly step on it, Thomas? According to the security footage that I just hacked, Gary Perez has left early for his morning jog, which gives us only 30 minutes to infiltrate his place, do the repo, and get out.
- Thomas Magnum: Relax. We have plenty of time. I can hotwire a Stingray in my sleep. It's gonna be a cakewalk.
- Juliet Higgins: You didn't see the client e-mail, did you?
- [cut to them in Perez's house looking at a fish tank]
- Thomas Magnum: I can't believe he meant stingray, the fish.
- Juliet Higgins: Well, had you read the client's e-mail properly, that would have been abundantly clear.
- Thomas Magnum: I didn't know you had a laptop, Kumu.
- Kumu: It's 2023, Thomas. Pretty sure you're the only one who doesn't.
- Thomas Magnum: That's what I have Higgy for.
- Thomas Magnum: [he and Higgins have been temporarily keeping a client's stingray at La Mariana] Rick is not gonna be happy.
- Juliet Higgins: Where are all the fish?
- Thomas Magnum: Maybe they're hiding.
- Kumu: Yeah, I don't think so.
- Juliet Higgins: But, I mean, stingrays generally only eat crustaceans and other invertebrates.
- Thomas Magnum: Well, tell that to the pufferfish.
- Kumu: I don't get it. Wouldn't your client have mentioned that something like this could happen?
- Thomas Magnum: [seeing Higgins' look and chuckling] Looks like somebody didn't read the e-mail. Hmm?
- Kumu: Who's gonna tell Rick? 'Cause it sure as hell isn't gonna be me.
- Thomas Magnum: You know, if... if we replace the fish, Rick never has to know, right? I mean, there's gotta be a pet store open somewhere.
- Juliet Higgins: I'm driving.
- Juliet Higgins: So, how's TC doing?
- Thomas Magnum: Unavailable. Again.
- Rick: You know, you'd think they'd come up with a different excuse to hide the fact that he's avoiding us.
- Juliet Higgins: I'm worried about him.
- Thomas Magnum: Yeah, we all are.
- Rick: Apparently, we're not the only ones. I guess he's ghosting his mother, too.
- Thomas Magnum: Really? How'd you hear about that?
- Rick: Well, she called the bar, and I said TC was still at the rehab facility, and that was news to her.
- Juliet Higgins: She didn't know he was there?
- Rick: She didn't even know he'd been shot.
- TC: You're still here.
- Verna Calvin: I'm not making the same mistake again. For 36 years, I wasn't there. And now's my second chance to be your mom, so I'm not going anywhere. So... what is it? Why are you pushing all your friends away? You don't want them to feel sorry for you?
- TC: Of course not. I ain't playing the victim.
- Verna Calvin: Leaning on people doesn't make you a victim.
- TC: I'm not so sure of that.
- Verna Calvin: So let me get this straight. You think all the people that lean on you, you think that they're weak?
- TC: No. What do you know about any of this?
- Verna Calvin: I know everything about this. Where do you think you get your pride from? Theodore... maybe if I had leaned on your father, maybe we would have stayed a family all those years.
- TC: I'm sorry I was harsh with you. But you were kind of invading my space.
- Verna Calvin: Please. You invaded my space for nine months.
- Thomas Magnum: I can't believe we're trying to repo a fish. I don't know, Nemo seems a bit below our pay grade.
- Juliet Higgins: Need I remind you that you once recovered a stolen tuna fish?
- Thomas Magnum: Yeah, worth $350,000.
- Juliet Higgins: Yeah. Okay, so maybe this one isn't quite in that range, but it is extremely rare. It retails for over $100,000, and we get 10% commission of that, so...