Sharpe (TV Series)
Sharpe's Gold (1995)
Ian Shaw: Lt. Ayres
Quotes
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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!
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Lt. Ayres : I smell a wager!
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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?