January 10, 2007
Bird, Bird! That's all I hear from you creeps! Bird! I don't give a damn WHO she is, or where she's hiding! The great City of New York has no room in it for vigilantes; I'll find this goddam Bird no matter WHERE she's holed up! My men and I, the whole goddam department, in fact, are working on this Bird thing a full twenty-four hours a day! All leaves have been canceled, special 'tac squads have been laid on, we've go our people in the streets following up every possible lead! We expect an arrest within 12 hours! Twenty-four at the very latest! Thirty-six at the most extreme outside estimate! You can quote me! And will you, fer chrissakes, learn to spell my name right in your goddam papers! It's Pflockian, not "Fallopian"! Now get the hell out of here and go down to the morgue and take some more pictures of that dead publisher, if that's your idea of fun and games; and let me get back to work! I'll have this Cordwainer Bird by the heels within fifty-two hours, you can quote me!"
-- Excerpt of Interview
with NYPD Chief of Detectives, Irving L. Fallopian;
New York Times; 29 January 1976
