The Rockford Files (TV Series)

Quickie Nirvana (1977)

Valerie Curtin: Jane Patten, Sky Aquarian, Gopi, Hester

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• Jane Patten : You're an unusual blend, Jim. You know, you're sweet, kind of losing it, kind of fascist.

• Alan Bayliss : [Jim and Sky are in Alan Bayliss' office, along with Chapman, trying to 'shake' Bayliss up, and get him nervous about the $30,000. Chapman's sitting on Bayliss' desk, asking him questions, which Bayliss answers in a mocking tone]  Let me just see if I can recap, lieutenant; Jane alleges that I gave her an envelope containing thirty thousand dollars which she was to deliver to a man on the Venice boardwalk?

  Lt. Doug Chapman : That's correct.

  Alan Bayliss : Well, that allegation has absolutely no basis in fact.

  [Bayliss turns to Sky, who's sitting Lotus-style on his glass coffee table, and in a faux paternalistic voice, he admonishes her, as she looks up at him] 

  Alan Bayliss : Jane; are you concocting this because you're still angry about the fact that I wouldn't let you and the other girls smoke grass

  [Alan looks at Chapman to emphasise this 'horrible' thing] 

  Alan Bayliss : at lunch hour?

  Jane Patten : Oh, wow, Alan it's better than knocking back 3 martinis like you do.

  Lt. Doug Chapman : Is that true, Miss Patten - are you a marijuana user?

• Jim Rockford : [Jim joins Sky, who's sitting in a taco restaurant. After being with Sky, for a couple of days, and listening to her, Jim's about had it, with Sky's pretentiosness]  You know, I've just about had it with you.

  Jane Patten : [Speaking in an innocent voice]  What's the matter?

  Jim Rockford : I'm tired of your philophisising, and moralising, and whining.

  Jane Patten : [Surprised]  'Whining'?

  Jim Rockford : [Angrily]  Yeah, you want to give me a sermon about the hamburger, and you've got gall enough to eat it.

  Jane Patten : [In a serious belief in her own shallowness]  Ordinarily, I wouldn't touch meat, but I am hungry, And even the Bhagavad-Gita says...

  Jim Rockford : [Brushing her droning off]  Oh, just stow it, okay? You know, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be in this mess. The first place, your flaky attitude you and me problems at every turn you can't remember anything, now I am buying your meals, what can you do, lady? The first place, your flaky attitude, you-and-me problems, at every turn, you can't remember anything. Now, I'm buying your meals.

  [Jim's angrier, hearing the words coming out of his mouth, and his disgust with Sky's wilful disregard of responsibility] 

  Jim Rockford : What can you do, lady?

  Jane Patten : [Believing the idiocy she's still spouting]  My consciousness doesn't lend itself to problem-solving, like your does, okay? I'm into an alternative lifestyle.

  [Jim smugly grimaces, then looks away from Sky] 

  Jane Patten : I am a seeker after truth. What's so wrong with that?

  Jim Rockford : Your 'alternative lifestyle' comes out of somebody else's pocket. You mooch, you borrow, you hardly work. Anybody who doesn't go along with it, their 'fascists', they're 'unmellow', 'competitive'. All that money and freedom is just another way of saying 'me first'.

  Jane Patten : [Looking down]  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 : [Smug and defiant]  What you mean is I'm not into structured living, or accumulated things i'm into my consciousness.

  Jim Rockford : 'Consciousness'? You're practically UN-conscious 24 hours a day! What you're 'into' is having somebody else to do your thinking for you. There's Gordon Borchers, Baba, the Bhagada-Gita. Next it's gonna be Sam Levinson, or Francis, the Talking Mule, for all I know. They have all the answers, right? Don't you have any answers of your own?

  Jane Patten : Those are pathways to bliss.

  Jim Rockford : MM-hmm, maybe. But you don't practise them. You just talk about them. You fled from ashram to water tank and back. Are you any happier for it, huh? And look around you; you see a lot of 'bliss' out there?

  Jane Patten : I've don't think I've done so bad for being 32 years old.

  Jim Rockford : You're 40. I've seen your drivers license.

  Jane Patten : I was 40, but I'm making positive affirmations. I am 32. I'm 'youthing' myself

  [Smugly smiles] 

  Jane Patten : .

  Jim Rockford : You're 40.

  Jane Patten : But I don't want to get old.

  Jim Rockford : Well neither do I

  Jane Patten : Oh, 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 is no easy answer, you know. There is no 'quickie nirvana'. You don't like it? Tough! Join the club.

• Jane Patten : [Right after Jim finds Sky at the Sunfire Institute, he tells her 2 men attacked him, as they tried to get him to tell them where Sky - and/or the money in the envelope is]  I think I remember tossing the envelope in the back of my car, with my food stamps, and my Tibetan fertility hat.

• Jane Patten : [Eddie and Dijan have just drove up on Rockford and Sky, at his trailer. They're their, because Rockford sent them back what he thought was the $30k, but was in fact cut-up newspaper]  Hey, let's be very mellow, and unviolent, and remember that we're all human beings, and part of the godhead, okay?

  Dijan : [Angily]  Shut up, and go inside.

• Jim Rockford : [Still sitting in a restaurant, and telling Sky how ridiculous, and immature she is, Sky retorts by saying Gordon - the phoney head of the Sunfire Institute - Sky goes to, and who ran away with the money has answers]  Good, good. You want to talk about good, old Gordo, huh? Well, I have a friend out at LAX, and she told me that there is nobody by the name of 'Gordon Borchers' who ever went to India, yesterday morning.

  Jane Patten : [Taken aback, by this, Sky quietly replies]  What?

  Jim Rockford : That's right. The 'guru' went south with the loot.

  Jane Patten : [Tense, and not wanting to believe what Jim's just said, Sky angrily snaps]  Shut up.

  Jim Rockford : A-ha! A little aggressiveness there, huh? Some 'negative energy'? Things aren't so mellow any more?

  Jane Patten : I said shut up.

  Jim Rockford : If we had the money, we might be able to see our way out of this mess, but we don't.

  [Sky begins to quietly cry, as Jim's talking, and looks downward] 

  Jim Rockford : Probably went out and bought a Dior prayer shawl, and some electric sandals.

  Jane Patten : [Not looking at Jim, Sky quietly says]  La Cuesta.

  Jim Rockford : W-whaaat!0? I couldn't hear you.

  Jane Patten : La Cuesta. It's this plastic beach and tennis club, near San Diego, you know?

  Jim Rockford : Yeah, I know. What about it?

  Jane Patten : Well, this really silicone cocktail waitress from La Cuesta showed-up one time at Sunfire, looking for Gordon. Later on, he denied he'd ever been there. I believed him.

  Jim Rockford : Well, of course he'd deny it. No self-respecting 'Buddha' would be caught dead in a place like that.

  Jane Patten : But, I believed him. I still do believe him.

  [Jim looks at Sky, and realises no matter what he'll say, and no matter what Sky sees with her own eyes, she is wilfully blind - and dumb] 

  Jane Patten : .

• Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford : [while Jim's using Rocky's phone, talking to Alan Bayliss, Sky's sitting in the Lotus position, on Rocky's coffee table, deep in discussion with Rocky. When Jim hangs up, Rocky walks up to Jim]  Say, sonny; I was just talking to Miss Aquarium, here, and she was telling me that she's got a good friend who is a professional golfer! Now, I know the way you want to improve your game, so, maybe you could talk to the guy!

  Jim Rockford : Dad, she didn't say 'professional golfer', she said 'professional Rolfer'.

  Joseph 'Rocky' Rockford : [Rocky looks utterly befuddled]  What's that?

  Jane Patten : You see, Mr Rockford, Rolfing is a technique for bringing the body's segments into realignment; the spine, the pelvis

  [Jim walks into the kitchen] 

  Jane Patten : the head. We have to get our segments back on the vertical axis. It's very important for our 'cosmic well-being, you know

  [Jim looks at them, and closes the kitchen's pass-through window's blinds] 

  Jane Patten : If we could...

• Jane Patten : [Sky's with Jim, back at the trailer, hoping her last pay-check was sent to his address. It hasn't. All of the sudden, a car pulls up, with 2 of the men who've been after the money. Turns out the envelope with the money was switched, and they received an envelope of cut-up newspaper, and are very mad]  Hey, um; let's just be very mellow, and, um non-violent, and remember that we're all human beings, and part of the god-head, okay?

  Dijan : [VERY angry]  Shut up, and go inside, hmm?