Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Gold (1995)

Ian Shaw: Lt. Ayres

Quotes 

• Richard Sharpe : [Skillicorn has been caught by Ayres with a chicken]  Look nobody lives here it's deserted!

  Lt. Ayres : He's a looter.

  [turns to his flunkies] 

  Lt. Ayres : Hang him!

• Rifleman Hagman : [recording target scores]  Miss Nugent, dead center. Major, you're off center five.

  Lt. Ayres : Damn it, should have wagered a hundred.

  Patrick Harper : Oh the book's still open, sir.

  Lt. Ayres : Right then, raise it.

  Patrick Harper : [writes a note]  An even hundred you have, sir.

• Lt. Ayres : [drunkenly]  She's a lady, which is why she's got a lady's gun. Which is a rifle!

  [sneers] 

  Lt. Ayres : What about that, Major Rifleman Sharpe?

  Richard Sharpe : You're drunk, Mr. Ayres.

  Lt. Ayres : So should you be by now. And I stick by muskets!

  Provost Marshal : [disapproving]  Ayres!

  Ellie Nugent : Back in Ireland, I go shooting quite a lot.

  Lt. Ayres : With a lady's gun!

• Lt. Ayres : [indicating Hagman]  Is he truly your best man?

  Patrick Harper : Oh he surely is. That man could shoot a pimple off your nose, without breaking the skin!

• Lt. Ayres : I smell a wager!

• Major Mungo Munro : [about El Casco's guerrillas]  The story goes, there was a great shipwreck hereabouts, long long ago. A galleon, bearing treasure from Mexico to the King of Spain. Not only gold, but idols for him to see, even people from that terrible land.

  Richard Sharpe : Treasure?

  Major Mungo Munro : Ah that catches your ear, laddie? Well if it's still there, no one's found it!

  Bess Nugent : William heard of it too.

  Ellie Nugent : You said a 'terrible land'?

  Major Mungo Munro : The Aztecs of Mexico were a high civilization, and entirely evil!

  Ellie Nugent : How could that be?

  Lt. Ayres : Their religion was based on human sacrifice. They cut the living hearts out of their prisoners...

  Major Mungo Munro : That'll do for now, man.

  Lt. Ayres : ...thousands at a time. Or they skinned them.

  Major Mungo Munro : I said that'll do!

  Lt. Ayres : They even had a god of flaying...the flayed god...

  Richard Sharpe : Stop gloating, Ayres!

  Lt. Ayres : I came across it in my studies. Rather amusing.

  Ellie Nugent : Major Munroe, you didn't mean there could be any of that here?

  Major Mungo Munro : No. Well, maybe a taint turned into foolish nonsense, these folk are peasants.

  Ellie Nugent : And that's all?