Tales of the South Seas (TV Mini Series)

Trent in Love (2000)

Rene Naufahu: Mauriri Lepau

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  David Grief : You know, I love dealing with royalty. Give me a descendant of the Sun God over a bureaucrat any day.

  [raising his glass to make a toast] 

  David Grief : To Tonga, the Jewel of the Pacific, to their beautiful women, their peerless hospitality and the wise and just Chief Haro.

  Mauriri Lepau : The same chief you once called the Scourge of the South Seas and dumber than a sack of coconuts.

  David Grief : [chuckling]  But that was last year.

• David Grief : Why didn't you say why you stowed away before we went back to Tonga?

  Cannibal Jack McGonnigal : I was ashamed. I dishonored my brother and my father. I hoped Chief Haro would forgive me if a white man was present.

  David Grief : What do you expect to do now?

  Cannibal Jack McGonnigal : Chief Haro said I belong to you now. I'll do whatever you wish.

  Mauriri Lepau : Where did you learn your English?

  Cannibal Jack McGonnigal : In the school Chief Haro allowed the missionaries to build.

  David Grief : And did he teach you to disobey your chief?

  Cannibal Jack McGonnigal : I was raised to be obedient to my father and to my chief, but I would never marry a man I don't love. Have you never defied what was expected of you?

  David Grief : [to Mauriri, as Tahura walks to the other side of the schooner]  Not a word.

  [Mauriri grins broadly] 

• [David cocks his gun as he and Mauriti approach a gang of drug smugglers] 

  Thug : What was that?

  Mauriri Lepau : [to David]  We're rapidly losing the element of surprise here.

• Roger Addison : I'm protected by diplomatic immunity!

  David Grief : Let's see how immune you are to a broken neck.

  Roger Addison : Don't let him kill me!

  Mauriri Lepau : People die in unexplained accidents all the time.

  Isabelle Reed : [to David and Mauriri]  He's not worth it.