The Rockford Files1974

Jim Rockford:
[Rockford is at a restaurant with a Lloyds of London representative discussing his reward for having helped recover stolen diamonds - a case that lead to the breaking of three priceless works of art] Mr. Cryder, I don't want to seem anxious, but I was wondering about my five percent recovery fee?

Cryder:
Ohhh yes. I called my people at Lloyds, they agreed.

Jim Rockford:
[smiling] Five percent, a million dollars worth of jewellery, that's fifty thousand dollars isn't it?

Cryder:
Yes... Unfortunately each of the cormorants was insured for fifteen thousand making a total of forty-five thousand.

Jim Rockford:
Well, what has one got to do with the other?

Cryder:
Well they feel that since you were hired to protect them, and since all three were destroyed, that you should... bear the loss...

Jim Rockford:
That's preposterous!

Cryder:
Unfortunately that is how they... feel. So, ah, forty-five thousand from fifty thousand leaves five thousand...

Jim Rockford:
[looking rather peeved] Well I didn't break the damn things!

Cryder:
...I've been doing some perliminary figuring... Now from the five thousand there's of course, ah, English inheritance and English income taxes [he starts subtracting on a pad of paper]... ah yes, we will have to inform your IRS [he chuckles] and there's the rate of exchange to consider and, oh yes, then there's...

Jim Rockford:
One minute, just one minute.

Cryder:
Yes?

Jim Rockford:
Do you think there's going to be enough for me to pick up this tab?

Cryder:
I really don't know, Mr. Rockford, that depends... Do you intend to keep on drinking?