A Shot in the Dark

Dreyfus: [answers phone] Commissioner Dreyfus... Ah, yes, my darling... I was just about to call you. I'm on my way. I've got the cheese and the beaujolais... What? [laughs] ... My love. Kiss the children for me, hmm? Dreyfus: Hold on. [covers phone mouthpiece; answers intercom] Yes? Intercom: Your wife is on the other line. Dreyfus: Tell her I'm out of town.

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François: I made a terrible mistake. Dreyfus: Who did you assign to the case? François: Clouseau. Dreyfus: Oh, my God.

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François: He was disguised as hunter to watch over the Ballon house. Dreyfus: Give me ten men like Clouseau, and I could destroy the world. Where is he now? François: I don't know. After I got his release, he received a phone call. He ran from his office yelling he had found the clue that would crack the case. Dreyfus: This case is already so full of cracks one more won't make any difference. [breaks his cigar with his fingers. He takes another and uses the cigar cutter - a miniature guillotine] François. François: Yes, commissioner? Dreyfus: I just cut off my thumb.

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Clouseau: There is something... personal... in this? Dreyfus: Yes, deeply personal. I hate you! Every little bit of you! Now get out! Clouseau: You want me to leave?

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Dreyfus: [chuckles and whimpers] He released her again, and he's taking her out to dinner. To dinner. Every paper in Paris has the story, including the Christian Science Monitor, and he gave them the story! You see, he claims she's protecting her lover, and the best way to force him into the open is to make him jealous. Jealous! That nincompoop! That megalomaniac! He's setting the science of criminal investigation back a thousand years, and I can't do anything about it! Psychoanalyst: Why not? Dreyfus: Why not? What if he's right?

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Maria Gambrelli: You should get out of these clothes immediately! You'll catch your death of pneumonia, you will. Clouseau: Yes, I suppose I probably will. But it's all part of life's rich pageant, you know.

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