Higgins: Don't ruin my whiskey with ice! I'm not a bloody American! Magnum: Higgins, you yo-yo!
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Thomas Magnum
Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV is the main character and namesake of Magnum, P.I., a popular, American television series set in Hawaii, and which aired from 1980 to 1988. Magnum was portrayed by Tom Selleck. As the title suggests, Magnum is a private investigator. Jay Hernandez is slated to portray the character in the 2018 reboot of the same name. 2Biography 3Early life The character Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV was born between 1943 and 1947, with August 8, 1943 fitting the most references. Both his father and grandfather were naval officers. He was born in Detroit, but raised in the Tidewater region of Virginia. In high school, his football team won a Virginia State football championship. Some members of his family, including his mother, still reside there (as seen and referenced in various episodes). In addition to English, Magnum speaks Vietnamese and Frenc
Alice Cook: Why did you quit, Tom? Magnum: It was nothing earth-shattering. One day I woke up age 33, and realized I'd never been 23.
Magnum: I'm not an intruder, I'm a guest! Higgins: Guests eventually leave.
So far this case had cost me my right to the wine cellar, the last cash in my pocket, and nearly my life. If that clerk was lying to me, I was gonna come back down here and shove that Robin Masters paperback in his ear!
Rick: You better be right, sweetheart. Magnum: Come on, when have I ever been wrong? Rick: I can't count that high.
This was one of those days I wish I'd listened to my mother and studied to be an orthodontist. Looking into someone's mouth has gotta be better than staring death in the face.
Hawaii is one of those places that, keeps topping itself. Just when you think you'll never see another sunset as beautiful, there comes a sunrise that only Gauguin could imagine. It kind of makes unemployment easier to take.
The death of a friend's never an easy thing to take, not in a rice paddy or on a pretty beach on Oahu. Either way, when they're young, it never makes sense.
Another cliché about getting information from bartenders is that no matter how sincere they sound, you know as soon as you're out the door, they're on the phone warning the guy you want to see. And this guy didn't strike me as being particularly different.
One of the clichés of my profession is that to get information from a bartender you have to slip him some bills of various denominations; Bills that you can't afford, with pictures of unfamiliar presidents. And usually for information that isn't worth it. However, this was a special case and I…