Don't worry about that. I've heard that if there's something called mitigating circumstances, sometimes they only give you 99 years.

8 seconds sound clip from Longstreet (1971) - Wednesday's Child sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:11:19.930 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- All right, it's your turn, missus.

- I got to talk to you, Richard.

- Why don't you quit drinking, Fred? It's not going to help you now.

- You realize what you got me and Ilene into?

- Kidnapping that girl. That's a capital offense. With a death penalty.

- Don't worry about that. I've heard that if there's something called mitigating circumstances, sometimes they only give you 99 years.

- That's not funny.

- Bringing her in here like that, eyeballing the both of us, just dragging us down with you.

- I do not want to hear any talk about me dragging anybody down.

- I got a hangman three states away nailin' up a gallows for me right now, and I ain't got a lot to lose.

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