Peggie Castle: Grace O'Conner

Quotes 

• Grace O'Conner : [narrating]  Here comes a girl in love with a city. Oh - that's me, Grace O'Conner, on my way to a day's work... or maybe a day's adventure. You're never quite sure what it's going to be. You walk down the Paseo de la Reforma in the most exciting city in the world - Mexico.

• Grace O'Conner : Hello, Juan? Grace... Isn't a little early in the morning?

  Juan Diez : I wish this were a social call, but it isn't. Frankly, Grace, I need your help. Could you meet me in Chapultepec Park by the lake?

  Grace O'Conner : Top secret stuff again? I'll bring the cloak if you bring the dagger.

• Grace O'Conner : [narrating]  I had a two-fold relationship with the good-looking Mexican I was about to meet. The first was a romantic one with a man named Juan Diez who very much wanted to be my husband. The other - a simple working arrangement with Commissioner Diez in which I was occasionally helpful as agent-without-portfolio - translation: undercover.

• [discussing Mrs. Graham's description of her estranged gangster husband] 

  Grace O'Conner : What's he like?

  Juan Diez : Oh, it sounds weird. He lives on nuts and raisins and vegetables. She says he suffers from asthma.

  Grace O'Conner : What does this villainous vegetarian look like?

• Thorwald : How about a drink between friends?

  Grace O'Conner : That's a nice custom between friends, however, I'd prefer to think of you as a stranger.

• Donovan : About that guide...

  Grace O'Conner : I'll have one for you in an hour.

  Jane : Grace, it's for you.

  Donovan : Now if we were back in the States, I'd be happy to be your guide... but, perhaps I'm being too subtle.

  Grace O'Conner : I get your message, but it's not included in the service.

• Grace O'Conner : [narrating]  At each place I tried to point out the special sights to Donovan, but he was interested only in the special sights of me.

• Grace O'Conner : [narrating]  I think the sweetest dound I ever heard was the sound of Juan's fist meeting Graham's jaw.

• [last lines] 

  Juan Diez : You were wonderful, but why didn't you call me rather than meeting Mrs. Graham on your own?

  Grace O'Conner : How did you know where I was?

  Juan Diez : How did you ever think Mrs. Graham could escape the federal police?

  Grace O'Conner : I don't mind you using her, but did you have to use me, too?

  Juan Diez : Nothing attracts bees like honey and speaking of honey, can we now have dinner? I found a nice new little place... What's the matter?

  Grace O'Conner : You remember me telling you I might run into complications?

  Juan Diez : Yes, but...

  Grace O'Conner : And you remember telling me that you would take care of anything that happened? Well, you would you mind getting a table for three?

  [Grace smiles at Donovan who is waiting patiently across the room] 

  Juan Diez : For three?