Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Battle (1995)

Daragh O'Malley: Sgt. Patrick Harper

Quotes 

• Patrick Harper : O'Rourke! I'll find you, O'Rourke!

  [a group of the renegade Irish appear, and Harper blasts them with his volley gun. Only O'Rourke is left standing] 

  O'Rourke : Sergeant Harper... you know I've no quarrel with a fellow Irishman.

  [He raises his musket and pulls the trigger. It clicks empty] 

  Patrick Harper : A good soldier always looks after his weapon, Private O'Rourke.

  [O'Rourke yells and charges with his bayonet. Harper disarms him and spins him around] 

  Patrick Harper : O'Rourke, this one's for Perkins...

  [stabs him] 

  Patrick Harper : This one's for Ireland...

  [stabs him again] 

  Patrick Harper : And this one's for me!

  [stabs him one last time. O'Rourke falls, dead] 

• Patrick Harper : [to O'Rourke]  Where would you be from?

  [...] 

  Patrick Harper : - From Galway, that's nice. I'm from Donegal myself. Do you know what else I am?... I'm ashamed and disgusted, so I am! That an Irishman can't keep his gun in half-decent order! Jesus, you wouldn't kill an *Englishman* with that, never mind a bloody *Frenchman* !

• [Perkins is badly wounded] 

  Perkins : [sobs]  Sorry, Sarge!

  Patrick Harper : You're gonna be all right, lad.

  Perkins : Dan! Dan! Give me a tune, Dan!

  Hagman : [sings]  O'er the hills, and o'er the main, to Flanders, Portugal and Spain, King George commands and we obey...

  Perkins : [sobs]  Mother!

  Patrick Harper : She's with ya, lad! Mothers never leave you!

  Perkins : [sobbing]  I'm sorry, Sarge...

  [he dies] 

  Patrick Harper : Oh, my God... Oh, my God... Nobody touches O'Rourke! That bastard's mine!

• Richard Sharpe : [Harper has dragged out the two Frenchmen captured whilst raping women and killing children]  Harper!

  Patrick Harper : Sir!

  Richard Sharpe : Put them up against the wall. I want a fireing squad ready.

  [In responce, all of the riflemen and members of the South Essex form two lines as the squad]