Susy Hendrix:
[trembling] All right, all right you can have it... you can have the doll! I'll give it to you... if you'll... if you'll just go and... and...
Roat: Yes, Susy?
Susy Hendrix: Not hurt me.
Roat: Say please.
Susy Hendrix: Please.
Roat: No, that's not quite it... say: "please may I give you the doll?"
Susy Hendrix: Please may I give you the doll?
Roat: You may.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
Roat: Yes, Susy?
Susy Hendrix: Not hurt me.
Roat: Say please.
Susy Hendrix: Please.
Roat: No, that's not quite it... say: "please may I give you the doll?"
Susy Hendrix: Please may I give you the doll?
Roat: You may.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
Carlino:
We don't work safes.
Roat: I know. But you talk. And that's why you've been invited to this party. To talk you way into that big black safe, Sergeant.
Mike Talman: There's a locked closet in the bedroom.
Roat: Oh, no, not there. It's just clothes.
Mike Talman: How do you know?
Roat: I looked.
Mike Talman: You have the key?
Roat: It's on the ledge above the door.
Mike Talman: No it isn't.
Roat: Well, they must have taken it with them.
Mike Talman: They lock the closet, but don't bolt the front door?
Roat: They're strange people; they lose dolls.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
Roat: I know. But you talk. And that's why you've been invited to this party. To talk you way into that big black safe, Sergeant.
Mike Talman: There's a locked closet in the bedroom.
Roat: Oh, no, not there. It's just clothes.
Mike Talman: How do you know?
Roat: I looked.
Mike Talman: You have the key?
Roat: It's on the ledge above the door.
Mike Talman: No it isn't.
Roat: Well, they must have taken it with them.
Mike Talman: They lock the closet, but don't bolt the front door?
Roat: They're strange people; they lose dolls.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
Roat:
[about the murdered Lisa] Well, she was trespassing, Mike... poaching. Going into the business for herself. Bad news. Things like that go on way a-half. Anarchy. No discipline, no sense of order. Bad news.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
Roat:
Aren't you forgetting something?
Mike Talman: We just earned the money?
[Talamn opens the door and begins to walk out]
Roat: I mean fingerprints.
[Talman stops and closes the door]
Roat: You just signed your names all over this place.
Roat: [Carlino begins wiping off finger prints off banister] Hmmm. Even if you could remember eveything you touched it would still take hours to wipe em off wouldn't it? If not days.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
Mike Talman: We just earned the money?
[Talamn opens the door and begins to walk out]
Roat: I mean fingerprints.
[Talman stops and closes the door]
Roat: You just signed your names all over this place.
Roat: [Carlino begins wiping off finger prints off banister] Hmmm. Even if you could remember eveything you touched it would still take hours to wipe em off wouldn't it? If not days.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
Roat:
Did you know they wanted to kill me? I did. I knew even before they did. They were awful amateurs, and that's why you saw through them.
Susy Hendrix: I saw through you too.
Roat: No, not all the way, Suzy. Even now, not all the way. The lovely thing was the way I let them set it all up. All that silliness of meeting in the parking lot, the whole thing, they had comic book minds. So, I let them do it their way, right up to the very end. And then, topsy-turvy. Me topsy and them turvy.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
Susy Hendrix: I saw through you too.
Roat: No, not all the way, Suzy. Even now, not all the way. The lovely thing was the way I let them set it all up. All that silliness of meeting in the parking lot, the whole thing, they had comic book minds. So, I let them do it their way, right up to the very end. And then, topsy-turvy. Me topsy and them turvy.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
Roat:
I cannot negotiate in an atmosphere of mistrust.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
Roat:
I'm Harry Roat Jr from Scarsdale.
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
--Alan Arkin (as Roat / Roat Jr. / Roat Sr.) in Wait Until Dark
