Knight Rider (TV Series)

Goliath: Part 1 (1983)

David Hasselhoff: Michael Knight, Garthe Knight

Quotes 

• Michael Knight : Now I know what getting run over by a truck really feels like.

  KITT : [strained voice box]  Michael, my computer functions are damaged, so I can't make a diagnosis, but you sound terrible. You need a doctor.

• [reacting to the sight of oncoming juggernaut on his monitor] 

  KITT : It appears to be a large... My goodness, large isn't the word, it's enormous!

  Michael Knight : Goliath.

  KITT : I believe it's time for a strategic withdrawal, Michael.

• KITT : It wasn't a fair fight, April. It's like putting Sugar Ray in the ring against a overgrown heavyweight.

  April Curtis : I'm sure it was KITT.

  KITT : It won't happen again, I can assure you of that.

  April Curtis : It better not! We have you patched together with Scotch tape and bailing wire as it is.

  KITT : [referring to Goliath]  If I ever see that snout-nosed ignoramus again...

  Michael Knight : You better hope he is heading in the opposite direction.

  KITT : I'm already reviewing my computer logs of our confrontation. In a matter of hours I will know everything there is to know about that banana-headed bovine!

  Michael Knight : You tell 'em, KITT!

• Garthe Knight : [seething]  Michael Knight is a living, breathing insult to my existence.

• Michael Knight : Kitt, look at it this way: gambling is all odds. Pure mathematics. Come on, I'll show ya.

  [pushes some buttons] 

  KITT : I'd rather not.

  Michael Knight : Little computer Blackjack, dollar a hand. I'm the house, you're the player.

  KITT : I believe the word is 'sucker'.

• Michael Knight : [taking a look at Kitt's Emergency Schematic Blueprint]  This looks like Greek to me.

  KITT : I beg your pardon?

  Michael Knight : That's just a phrase... that's just a phrase...

• Michael Knight : [Kitt has won the first round of Blackjack]  They call that beginners luck, pal.

  KITT : As I understand it, the phrase is 'Shut up and deal'.

• Michael Knight : [still struggling with Kitt's Emergency Schematic Blueprint]  And I thought putting a barbeque together was hard...

  KITT : Michael, I've never felt this way before...

  Michael Knight : That makes two of us.

  KITT : I mean so vulnerable, so... mortal. Do you think it's possible I could cease to exist?

  Michael Knight : If I don't get you running pretty soon, you can put money on it.

• Michael Knight : What did Wilton Knight do, restructure my face in Garthe's image?

  Devon Miles : Well, he was certain, as we all were, that Garthe's would never be seen by anybody again.

• Garthe Knight : No one tells me how to proceed with Red Bluff. My mother doesn't and you don't. Without me you'd still be in the bush, dodging spears.

  Tsombe Kuna : Without me you'd still be rotting in jail. So you see we are mutually indebted to each other.

• KITT : Michael, the phrase 'yes and no' is an insult to the precision of the English language.

  Michael Knight : [laughs]  That's why I like it.

• Garthe Knight : This is kidnapping.

  Devon Miles : [pointing a gun at Garthe]  A relative term. Under the circumstances I think your late father would have approved.

• Elizabeth Knight : I believe you two already know each other?

  Devon Miles : Yes. It's been quite some time. Before your African experience.

  Garthe Knight : You know you're amazingly like my late father. Perhaps that's why I dislike you so.

  Devon Miles : Garthe, I came here to reason with you and your mother.

  Garthe Knight : It's too late for reason, Mr. Miles. It's too late for anything but war. Our victory, your defeat. And you will be defeated. You, the Foundation for Law and Government and Michael Knight. Especially Michael Knight.

• KITT : Michael, I'm getting a reading about a mile further down the road.

  Michael Knight : Alright, what you got?

  KITT : People, an RV, a large plane and - Michael, that brute, that misserable mechanical masher, he's there too. Three to one he won't brutalize me again. Four to one!

  Michael Knight : Ok pal. We're on.

• Garthe Knight : I'm please you'll be here to witness my penultimate glory.

  Michael Knight : You know, it's people like you who give revolution a bad name.

  Garthe Knight : This isn't revolution, it's a personal conquest.

  Michael Knight : That's what I mean.

  Garthe Knight : Ah, a man of principle. Able to my Cain, my brother.

• Garthe Knight : I look forward to sharing so many things with you. After all, we have so much in common: our surname, our faces, my father, why not our future?

  Michael Knight : What's that supposed to mean?

  Garthe Knight : On conclusion of my mission I'm returning to Africa. You're coming with me.

  Michael Knight : Garthe, you're out of your mind.

  Garthe Knight : No, but you may be. You see, African prisons can have that effect on a man's mind.

  Michael Knight : Prison?

  Garthe Knight : Precisely. The same hell-hole I was subjected to while my father turned his back on me and gave you everything that was rightfully mine.

• Michael Knight : Kitt, how big is that weak spot, where the trailer and tractor connect?

  KITT : [showing it on his viewscreen and highlighting the area]  No larger than a quarter.

  Michael Knight : Even David had a bigger target when he went after Goliath.

• Tsombe Kuna : [indicating Goliath]  A miracle of American technology.

  [laughs] 

  Garthe Knight : If this is anyone's miracle, it's mine.

• Elizabeth Knight : I was hoping your brush with life imprisonment would teach you something about discipline.

  Garthe Knight : Discipline has never been a problem, mother dear. Mark my words: Michael Knight will die. After all, he was designed by my late, great father to replace me, wasn't he? How could I possibly tolerate his life on this Earth?