4x07 Quickie Nirvana - The Rockford Files Episode Guide

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- Episode 04x07

Episode: 04x07
Title: Quickie Nirvana
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 47513
First Aired: Nov. 11, 1977

Season 4 » Episode #07 - Quickie Nirvana

The Rockford Files - 04x07 Quickie Nirvana

Summary: Jim lets acquaintance “Sky Aquarian” use his telephone and his mailing address as a favor. That might be a bad idea, because a couple of thugs come looking for her. Jim tracks Sky to an ashram and then to Gordon Borchert’s consciousness collective before he finds her, and learns that one of her bosses gave her a package to deliver, and that she forgot to deliver it. Jim insists she show him the envelope, and when he opens it, he discovers $30,000 in cash. The next day, Jim sends the envelope back to Sky’s boss – but later learns what he mailed was newspaper clippings! Jim evades goons, discovers Skye can’t keep her mouth shut, and returns to Gordon’s collective to get the real money back, only to discover that Gordon has skipped to India...

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford #2	played by Noah Beery Jr.
Jane Patten	played by Valerie Curtin
Sky Aquarian	played by Valerie Curtin
Gopi	played by Valerie Curtin
Hester	played by Valerie Curtin
Alan Bayliss	played by Kip Gilman
Gordon Borchert	played by Quinn K. Redeker
Maceo Prentiss	played by Dick Anthony Williams
Dijan	played by Lawrence Cook

Season 4 / Episode 7: - Quickie Nirvana

Jane Patten: Poor little animal - gave his life to make this.

Jim Rockford: You know, I've just about had it with you!
Jane Patten: What's the matter?
Jim Rockford: I'm tired of your philosophising and moralizing and whining...
Jane Patten: Whining?
Jim Rockford: Yeah, you want to give a sermon about a hamburger and you've got the gall enough to eat it!
Jane Patten: Ordinarily I wouldn't touch meat, but I'm hungry. And even Bhagavad Gita says...
Jim Rockford: Oh stow it, okay! You know if it wasn't for you I wouldn't be in this mess in the first place! Your flakey attitude! You hand me problems at every turn. You can't even remember anything, now I'm buying you your meals. What can you do, lady?
Jane Patten: My consciousness doesn't lend itself to problem solving like yours, okay! I'm into an alternative lifestyle. I'm a seeker after truth. Now what's so wrong with that?
Jim Rockford: You're alternative lifestyle comes out of somebody else's pocket. You mooch, you borrow, you hardly work, but it doesn't go along with it there. They're facists, unmellow, competitive; all that love and freedom is just another way of saying me first!
Jane Patten: It is not!
Jim Rockford: Yes it is! You just don't have a sense of responsibility, that's all there is to it!
Jane Patten: What I mean is I'm not into a structured living or accumulated things. I'm into my consciousness!
Jim Rockford: Consciousness! You're practically unconscious 24 hours a day! What you're into is having someone else do you're thinking for you. There's Gordon Borchet, Baa Baa the Bhagavad Gita. Next it's going to be Sam Levinson or Francis the Talking Mule for all I know. Thay have all the answers, right. Don't you have any answers of your own?
Jane Patten: Those are pathways to bliss...
Jim Rockford: Hmm, maybe. But you don't practice them, you just talk about them. You've flipped from Ashram to watertank and back! Are you any happier for it? Look around you. You see a lotta bliss out there?
Jane Patten: I don't think I've done so bad for being 32 years old.
Jim Rockford: You're 40. I've seen your driver's license.
Jane Patten: I was 40, but I'm making positive affirmations! I'm 32... I'm youthing myself.
Jim Rockford: You're 40.
Jane Patten: But I don't want to get old...
Jim Rockford: Well neither do I.
Jane Patten: But you see we don't have to. Not if...
Jim Rockford: There's nothing you can do about it. That's the way it is. I'm sorry to be the bearer of the bad news. There's no easy answer, you know. No quickie nirvana. You don't like it, tough, join the club!

Season 4 / Episode 7: - Quickie Nirvana

Jim Rockford: This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message, I'll get back to you.
Anonymous Caller: [Beeep] Hey, I saw your ad in the classified: three African goats for sale. I keep calling and all I get is the machine. Is that a typo in the paper our what?

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