Sharpe (TV Series)
Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
Daragh O'Malley: Patrick Harper
Quotes
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Richard Sharpe : [after knocking Bickerstaff to the ground] Next time I give an order, you bloody jump to. Understand?
Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff : [groans incomprehensibly; as Sharpe walks away, he pulls a knife from his boot and charges]
Patrick Harper : [notices the ambush] Richard!
Richard Sharpe : [Sharpe turns and headbutts him in the face] Come at me with a knife, will ya? You little gutless bastard!
[pummels him before being pulled off by Harper]
Richard Sharpe : Had enough, Shadrach?
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Patrick Harper : Come on now lads... three to one? That's not fair odds.
Richard Sharpe : They don't want fair odds, Pat.
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Patrick Harper : How long do you think the outer wall will hold?
Richard Sharpe : It's not meant to hold. It's meant to *come down*!
Patrick Harper : There's nothing more teasing to a besieging army than a great bloody breach...!
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Richard Sharpe : I thought you were dead, Pat!
Patrick Harper : I can't be watching your arse if I'm dead, now can I?
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Patrick Harper : [points his volley gun at Bickerstaff] Say hello to Mr Nock!
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Patrick Harper : [enemy cavalry have captured him and Sharpe in their land] It's about time!
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General Sir Henry Simmerson : For a horse dealer, Mr. Harper, you seem remarkably well informed!
Patrick Harper : Well sir you see, a horse dealer picks up more round and about, than just shit on his boots, sir.
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Richard Sharpe : What do you reckon then, Pat? This Khande Rao can be taken?
Patrick Harper : Well, he has a reputation of being a real monster.
Mohan Singh : [comes up from behind a tent] If he is a monster, Mr. Harper, then he's one of British making.
Richard Sharpe : How's that, Captain?
Mohan Singh : The Company have only maintained the peace here by keeping the princes at each other's throats. Khande Rao's father: he feared his neighbours more than he hated the British. And so it was your country that kept him supplied with arms.
Patrick Harper : That sounds just like the English, getting someone else to do its dirty work!
Mohan Singh : The son is not the father, however. Khande Rao wants you out of our country, once and for all. It is a view with which I cannot say I do not have some sympathy.
Richard Sharpe : So why are you fighting with us?
Mohan Singh : Khande Rao is... a sworn enemy of my blood. And that makes you my enemy's enemy, and therefore, a necessary evil. Good day to you
[inclines his head]
Mohan Singh : both.
[Leaves]
Patrick Harper : I don't think I like the sound of that. A necessary evil...
Richard Sharpe : Have we ever been else?
Patrick Harper : Oh... and there was me thinking we were always on the side of the angels.
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Patrick Harper : You're a long way from home, Richard. Are you lost?
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Mohan Singh : Mr. Harper! Well, it would appear we have been premature in our prayers at your passing.
Patrick Harper : Luck of the Irish, captain. You can't beat it!
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Patrick Harper : I've been a soldier too long. You know how it is.
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Richard Sharpe : [examining the Indian guns] Rusted dog screw. Would you say this is good enough, Corporal Harper?
Patrick Harper : That I wouldn't, Sergeant. No, that I wouldn't!
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General Sir Henry Simmerson : [staring at the head sent by Khande Rao] They killed with a nail, McRae. A nail! Driven into his *skull!*
Patrick Harper : He was, general, but not by any hammer. This is the work of jettis. Professional strongmen: killing people in interesting ways is part of their remit.
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Richard Sharpe : It's a right bloody mess. Simmerson's attack failed, Khande Rao's men are still all over the woods - and Gudin has recommended me for a medal for my part in the victory.
Patrick Harper : Well, it wasn't an entirely unprofitable evening, then!
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Patrick Harper : So, wait a minute - you and me, we're gonna stop a rebellion, just the two of us?
Richard Sharpe : Well, I see no bugger else.
Patrick Harper : Yeah... that sounds just about right, just as long as you let me know!
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Richard Sharpe : Dodd. 'General Dodd will insist', Gudin said.
Patrick Harper : Who is he?
Richard Sharpe : The Company renegade you've been trying to find, for one.
Patrick Harper : And for two?
Richard Sharpe : A murdering bastard.
Patrick Harper : Do you know him?
[Sharpe nods]
Patrick Harper : - Does *he* know *you*?
Richard Sharpe : He had a lot on his mind that day at Chaselgaon.
Patrick Harper : Chaselgaon? - Shite! I'll take that as a 'Let's hope not', then.