The A-Team (TV Series)

When You Comin' Back, Range Rider?: Part 1 (1983)

Lance LeGault: Col. Decker

Quotes 

• General : These men have been wanted for over ten years. All in all, they've made a fine bunch of jackasses out of all of us, and I want it to stop now. I want you to find The A-Team and bring 'em in. You were the best troubleshooter in the past two wars.

  Col. Roderick Decker : Until extreme political pressures knocked the hat off my career, and any possibility of furthering my rank.

  [destroys a target with his rifle] 

  Col. Roderick Decker : It seems the very methods that made me, eh an embarassment and shuffled me off to the side are the exact reasons I'm being considered the best man for this job.

  General : I'm not saying...

  Col. Roderick Decker : We both know what you're saying, General, so let's not dance around the floor once. Everyone heard the reports from 'Nam on these guys. They were the best, because they're fast, sharp, and unorthodox. The way to catch men like this are to play by their rules, which means... there are none.

  General : What I'm interested in, Colonel, are results. I don't expect detailed reports on the whats, hows, or whens of their apprehension, I just want to know that it's done.

• Col. Decker : [using a bull horn]  This is Col. Decker of the U.S. army. You are completely surrounded.

  "Hannibal" Smith : Ah, no kidding.

  "Faceman" : Colonel Decker, do you hear that?

  Amy Allen : You know this guy?

  "Faceman" : Everyone in Vietnam knew him. He's one of those guys who always got the job done under any circumstances and he never lost any sleep over how he did it.

  "B.A." Baracus : Yeah, Hannibal and this guy mixed it up once in the Doom Club.

  Amy Allen : The Doom Club?

  "Hannibal" Smith : Yeah, the Da Nang officers' open mess.

  Amy Allen : So what, you didn't like the way he sugared his coffee?

  "Hannibal" Smith : No, I didn't like the way he blew up Cong hospitals like it was his favorite sport.