Spenser: Small Vices (1999 TV Movie)

Joanna Miles: Evans

Quotes 

• Dean Evans : You are a private detective?

  Spenser : Yes, ma'am.

  Dean Evans : How does one get to be a private detective?

  Spenser : I hesitate to generalize. I was a cop, found myself restless with the hierarchy, decided to go private. I was helped to that decision by getting fired.

• Dean Evans : You speak rather well.

  Spenser : You too.

  Dean Evans : [smiling]  Good for you. I was patronizing, wasn't I?

• Spenser : What I need is a list of the students who at the time of the murder were in the dorm overlooking where the body was found.

  Dean Evans : Do you have some sort of, I don't know the proper terminology, some sort of legal empowerment that requires me to give it to you?

  Spenser : No, ma'am.

  Dean Evans : Oh, then I will not.

  Spenser : You academics are so evasive.

• Dean Evans : My memory is that the man that was convicted of this crime was a career criminal who preyed on women.

  Spenser : So no harm in putting him away, even if he didn't do this one.