The Rockford Files question

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I must admit, The Rockford Files is one of my all-time favorite TV shows. Even now, it’s fun to watch these shows filmed during the mid-70s and realize just how much the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles in general has changed. But I digress.

In one episode, Jim is playing chess and Angel Martin walks in. Angel kibitzes, but uses underwold terms for the pieces (I think he refers to a Bishop as a “torpedo”). He ends it by saying, “and all you’ll have left is punks and junkies.”

Does anyone know all of Angel’s “analysis”? Thanks…

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I found this in the Dayton chess club web site:

“This game’s over, man! You gotta move your Boss or Rocky’s gonna lay a subpoena on him: then his Torpedo is gonna smoke your Old Lady, and all your Heavies’ll be doin time-except for maybe your Mouthpiece, but Rocky’s Sheriff got him put in the corner-you got nothin’ left but Punks and Junkies: you’re through, Jimmy.”
–Angel Martin to Jim Rockford, commenting on a chess game.
From the Rockford Files episode: “Chicken Little Is a Little Chicken.” by Stephen J. Cannell

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Thank you GIGObuster! I will raise a glass of fine scotch in your honor.

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That is classic Rockford Files dialogue! Man, I hate how Angel turned into a parody of himself in later years.

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Yes, but without Angel, we would have less exposure to the lowlifes that gave Rockford its unique charm.

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The Rockford Files was a great show. The OP has been answered, but just to share one of my favorite lines that demonstrates Rockford’s cynical nature is when William Daniels (the guy who was the voice of KITT in Knight Rider and made a living playing snooty, prissy characters) plays an art dealer who is interested in hiring Rockford and is spouting off about art and asks Rockford whether he?s a connoisseur of art.

Rockford replies with this sardonic look that he once had a painted turtle once as a kid.