The Best Pete Martell Quotes

Jocelyn: On top of the morning to you, Pete.
Pete: Uh, no, Josie, the expression is "top of the morning." And it's just barely morning!

[first lines]
Pete: Gone fishing.

Pete: Lucy? This is Pete Martell. Lucy, put Harry on the horn.
[whispers]
Pete: Oh dear.

Pete: Fellas, don't drink that coffee! You're not gonna believe this, there was a fish in the percolator!

Pete: She's dead - wrapped in plastic

Catherine: Didn't he want to talk to me?
Pete: Yeah, but we told him you were on your world tour, he should contact your press agent.

Pete: It sure looked to me like you.
- Margaret, what did your husband say exactly about this oil?
- He brought it back one night just before he died and said: "This oil is an opening to a gateway."
- Intriguing, isn't it?

Pete: Fellas, don't drink that coffee! You'd never guess. There was a fish... in the percolator! Sorry...

- Hello, Harry.
- Seems like every gal in town is lined up to take a shot at the...
- Say, have you had any luck with this thing?
- Oh!
- Butterfingers.
Pete: Holy moly.
Catherine: What is it?

Pete: Oh dear. Lucy? Lucy, this is Pete Martell. Lucy, put Harry on the horn.
Lucy: Sheriff, it's Pete Martell up at the mill. Uh, I'm going to transfer it to the phone on the table by the red chair. The red chair against the wall. The little table with lamp on it. The lamp we moved from the corner? The black phone, not the brown phone.
Sheriff: Morning, Pete. Harry.
Pete: She's dead, wrapped in plastic.

Pete: [Pouring coffee] Mr. Cooper, how do you take it?
FBI: Black as midnight on a moonless night.
Pete: Pretty black.

Pete: [about Cooper's coffee] How do you like yours?
Dale: Black as midnight on a moonless night.
Pete: Pretty black.

Audrey: What a gyp. Finally meet the man of my dreams and next thing I know he's on a plane to Brazil.
Pete: He'll be back one day. He promised.
Audrey: Yeah. Well, he also promised to take me fishing, and we never did. Love stinks.
Pete: Fishing?
Audrey: Yeah. Pearl Lake or something.
Pete: [pause] I have some tackle in the truck.
Audrey: You do?
Pete: Audrey, there are many cures for a broken heart, but nothing quite like a trout's leap in the moonlight. May I?
Audrey: [she laughs] You may.
[they walk back to the truck, arm in arm]

Pete: Harry? She's dead. Wrapped in plastic.

Pete: Audrey, there are many cures for a broken heart. But nothing quite like a trout's leap in the moonlight.

Pete: Hot dogs! We forgot the hot dogs!
Catherine: Pete!
Pete: We forgot the wienies! All beef with the skin on 'em.

Pete: [calling the police to report the discovery of body of Laura Palmer] She's dead... wrapped in plastic...

Pete: [about serving coffee to Dale Cooper and Sheriff Truman] Mr. Cooper, how do you take it?
Dale: Black as midnight on a moonless night.
Pete: Pretty black.

- Andy, the knight has to do the little hook thing.
- Every time?
Pete: It's a privilege.
- No one else gets to make that move.
- Okay, Mr. Martell.
- I guess some people don't know quite as much as they think they do.
- Check.

Pete: Mr. Cooper, how do you take it?
Dale: Black as midnight on a moonless night.
Pete: Pretty black.

Pete: Fellas, don't drink that coffee! You'd never guess. There was a fish in the percolator! Sorry.