A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV Series)

Prisoner's Base: Part 1 (2001)

Nicky Guadagni: Viola Duday

Quotes 

• Bernard Quest : I have been in this company 62 years. In 1933, when I was made Vice-President by Nathan Eads, he promised me that one day I would be given a substantial share in the corporation. In 1942 he died, and when his will was read, I found he had broken his promise to me, and so I decided to kill his daughter Priscilla. She was 15 years old. I decided to strangle her.

  Viola Duday : [screaming]  Bernie!

  Sarah Jaffee : [shocked]  My God!

  Nero Wolfe : I even worked out the details - where to find a rope, how to employ it, what to do with afterward, and I practiced... I practiced by strangling myself.

  Nero Wolfe : [coughs while Wolfe nods in understanding]  But that was ten years ago, and in the end, I finally came to my senses. I didn't kill her then and... Oh, what's the point? I'm too old, my children are grown, and I have everything I need.

  Nero Wolfe : [laconically]  Oh, perhaps you should have strangled yourself.