Quiz Show Monologues

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

21 is rigged and I can prove it… I have Enright cold and that means I have you.

Hey, you don't have to be a genius to connect the dots.

Hey, don't treat me like some member of your goddamn fan club. Are you telling me everybody got the answers but you?

Was it just the money, Charlie?

Charlie, you wanna insult me, fine, but you can't envy me at the same time.

And I'll send you a little helpful reminder. You'll notice it because it'll look very much like a subpoena.

I thought we were gonna get television. The truth is... television is gonna get us.

I asked myself, "why would he do this, he knows I'll come after him?" Then it occurred to me. He knows I'll come after him.

Dan, let me tell you something. In this envelope are all the questions that James Snodgrass was asked on Twenty One. The odd thing about this envelope is that he appeared on the show January 13th, if you recall. Yet, he somehow mailed this to himself on January 11th via registered mail. I'd say that's pretty goddamn concrete, wouldn't you?

Well, I definitely have an inkling of what you're talking about. He told me this whole story about how when a Jew is on the show, he always loses to a gentile, and then the gentile wins more money. Right? I mean, who could dream up a scheme like that?