The Persuaders! (1971–1972)
Roger Moore: Lord Brett Sinclair, Lady Agatha, The Admiral, The General
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Quotes
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[Danny kneels in front of a hotel room door, trying to pick its lock]
Danny Wilde : Spencer Tracy once took a pipe cleaner - an ordinary pipe cleaner - and by inserting it into the lock, and moving it around in intricate positions - you know, I could be a gentleman cracksman with this -
[Brett, who went out a window, onto a ledge and into the room through its window, opens the door from the inside]
Lord Brett Sinclair : There's no need to kneel, I'm a very democratic sort of lord.
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Chivers : You might want to try for a pheasant, m'lord. I'll get the guns.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Thank you, Chivers. A good idea.
Danny Wilde : You still shoot peasants around here, huh?
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Danny Wilde : And you know what that is?
Lord Brett Sinclair : What is it?
Danny Wilde : It's a fireplace! I'm gonna clean it up, and put a big leather chair right in front here, and in the wintertime, when there's storms out, I'm gonna sit here with my old, faithful dog at my side -
Lord Brett Sinclair : But Daniel, you don't have a dog!
Danny Wilde : Then I'll rent one!
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Felix Meadowes : I'm in trouble, Brett.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Money trouble?
Felix Meadowes : Woman trouble.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Oh. Well, if you're going to have trouble, that's the sort to have.
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[Brett enters the main hall of the Sinclairs' ancestral home and is surprised by Danny, hiding behind a suit of armor and wearing its helmet]
Danny Wilde : Helloooo... Welcome, good knight! Dost thou bring thy sword to aid the king?
Lord Brett Sinclair : Daniel, what on Earth are you doing here?
Danny Wilde : How'd you know it was me? I'm here because you invited me.
Lord Brett Sinclair : I did?
Danny Wilde : Yes, you did.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Uh... when did I invite you?
Danny Wilde : When did you invite me?
Lord Brett Sinclair : Yes.
Danny Wilde : How many times have you said to me, "Why don't you come out and spend the weekend with me?" You must have said it a hundred times?
Lord Brett Sinclair : Yes, of course -
Danny Wilde : So I finally show up, so here I am -
Lord Brett Sinclair : Any special reason, this particular weekend?
Danny Wilde : What special reason do I need? I'm your friend, right?
Lord Brett Sinclair : Well, of course you are -
Danny Wilde : Well, I'm here to see your incestral home.
Lord Brett Sinclair : *Ancestral.*
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[in the midst of a bar fight with some goons]
Danny Wilde : They're good, aren't they?
Lord Brett Sinclair : Excellent! I wish they were on our side!
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Danny Wilde : OK, come on, give me the map, let me be the navigator.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Thank you, Daniel, I remember the last time we went to Berlin.
Danny Wilde : So?
Lord Brett Sinclair : We were supposed to be going to Madrid.
Danny Wilde : Well, nobody's perfect, kid!
Lord Brett Sinclair : Certainly not you.
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Danny Wilde : I told you, Angie's my friend. He's all thats left for me. The streets I came from, the way things were for me.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Danny, you can't go back to the way things were, cause they were never that way in the first place.
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[Danny and Brett are driving on a rough country road towards Danny's new cottage]
Lord Brett Sinclair : Daniel, will you please turn around and take me to the station? I wish to go back to London.
Danny Wilde : I'm not takin' you back to the station to go back to London. You're staying with me!
Lord Brett Sinclair : I don't care how good your surprise is, nothing is worth a ride like this.
Danny Wilde : You know what your problem is? You're getting soft! Living in London is doing it to you, making you a softy. You stick with me, 'cause the surprise I'm gonna show you is gonna knock your eyes out.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Well, that shouldn't be difficult, you've shaken them loose already!
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Lord Brett Sinclair : I don't understand a wretched thing. Now please, Lucy, just sit down! I am a sweet, gentle, reasonable man, but will you *please* give me some answers to questions.
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[Brett and Danny have been captured by the villains, who are seeking an important diary in Brett's briefcase]
Lord Brett Sinclair : I'll bet you one hundred dollars his first words are, "Where is it?"
Sergei : Where is it?
Danny Wilde : You're right. Can you untie me?
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[Danny is kissing an attractive female reporter's hand]
Danny Wilde : I waited at your apartment, but you never showed up!
Carrie : I made rather a mess of that, didn't I?
Lord Brett Sinclair : You must excuse him, his early life was heavily influenced by Rudolph Valentino.
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[Brett and Danny drive up to a darkened country house]
Danny Wilde : Did you ever see a movie called "The Old Dark House?"
Lord Brett Sinclair : No, what happened?
Danny Wilde : Everybody died.
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[Brett's Uncle Angus has just been squashed flat by a falling courtyard door, the latest in a string of murders of Brett's relatives]
Kate : Poor Uncle Angus. Meanest man I ever met. Probably worth millions.
Danny Wilde : Imagine. All that money and he died flat.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Well, uh, as someone once said, "To lose one relative is misfortune. To lose two is carelessness."
Kate : Oscar Wilde.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Thank you. But I have lost six. Which is absolute, downright negligence!
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Lucy : No-one's here!
Lord Brett Sinclair : Quiet as the proverbial - why are we whispering? Daniel! He's got a... shotgun.
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Danny Wilde : You know what really riles me? The fact that we could be outsmarted by a dumb-dumb like Felix. What does he think? He must think he's in some kind of a spy movie, that's what!
Lord Brett Sinclair : "The Spy Who Came In from the Cold." That was a good film. Robert Burton.
Danny Wilde : Benson.
Lord Brett Sinclair : No - *Richard* Burton!
Danny Wilde : No - Benson!
Lord Brett Sinclair : Who's Benson?
Danny Wilde : That's the name of the guy I spoke on the phone with last night. He thought I was Felix! And he mentioned something about contracts.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Ergo, Benson is the publisher.
Danny Wilde : Right, go ahead.
Lord Brett Sinclair : And there are only about three hundred publishers in London.
Danny Wilde : Yeah, but how many of them have private printing presses in Switzerland? Now they're incorporated over there, they've got a branch office here, and that's how they get around the Official Secrets Act!
Lord Brett Sinclair : I like it.
Danny Wilde : Well, I don't!
Lord Brett Sinclair : Well, I do! It's positive thinking! Well, it is going to take a little time tracking down the publisher.
Danny Wilde : There's, uh, there's a flaw.
Lord Brett Sinclair : Oh, what's that?
Danny Wilde : I mean, he's not just gonna hand us over the manuscript, right? We're gonna have to break in and steal it!
Lord Brett Sinclair : We're not very good at that.
Danny Wilde : Uh, we're *lousy* at that.
