Lt. Doug Chapman

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James Luisi
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Season 4, Episode 03	Season 3, Episode 14
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Season 4 / Episode 17: - Dwarf in a Helium Hat

Jim Rockford: Hey Billings, is Becker around?
Police Officer Billings: No, he's on his dinner break.
Lt. Doug Chapman: I'm sure I can be of small service?
Jim Rockford: [nervously] No, okay Lieutenant, thank you, thank you...
Lt. Doug Chapman: Ah now, Rockford, give me a break will you? For weeks... no months... no years I've been looking forward to helping you with some of your police work.
Jim Rockford: Well I'll...
Lt. Doug Chapman: No, you know what I mean Jimbo. Well that's what Becker calls you isn't it? Jimbo, like in bimbo?
Jim Rockford: Look Lieutenant...
Lt. Doug Chapman: No, I see you coming in here all the time, using the telephone, eating the doughnuts, and I understand you're really a swell guy. So I want to be able to help you cause this department is here to service the public. Let's face it, Jimbo, after all you're a taxpayer. So how about if I put a five man squad out in the field to sniff around for you, or maybe a special weapons team?
Jim Rockford: [losing his patience] Why do you waste this act on the swing shift, Lieutenant? Why don't we run right over to the Tonight Show and let Carson have a look at it? [snickers break out across the squad room]
Lt. Doug Chapman: Was there something else?
Jim Rockford: Yeah, in your office maybe?
Lt. Doug Chapman: Oh no, here. Let's talk here.
Jim Rockford: All right. I got a call tonight in my trailer. A guy says "Jay look outside, your dog is dead. You've got twelve hours and you and the Lancing girl are next" and he hung up.
Lt. Doug Chapman: Hmm, well you want the Department of Animal Husbandry, or maybe the Humane Society.
Jim Rockford: Oh Chapman, does this keep coming or are you really just a giant bag of gas in a three piece suit? [the squad room breaks into laughter]
Lt. Doug Chapman: Is this a bus station? You're all waiting for the 9:15 to Fresno, hmm? Or maybe you've got work to do? [he turns back to Rockford] Okay. Big case, huh? Oh you'd probably have Becker running all over hell's half acre, down to the phone company, checking locked circuits, tracing numbers, running units into the half dozen possibilities. Something like that?
Jim Rockford: Right, right! Plus a name: Lancing.
Lt. Doug Chapman: Ah right! Lancing! Well there's got to be at least two hundred of them in L.A. So what do we come out of this with? A dead dog. Maybe. Or maybe we turn a guy with a glassy grin or a lampshade on his head. Billings! Put Mr. Rockford on a skateboard and give him a push towards the sidewalk. Jimbo? [he walks out of the room]
Jim Rockford: We'll be right back after this brief commercial announcement. [the squad room breaks into laughter again]

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