Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999 TV Movie)

Jamie Bamber: Kennedy

Quotes 

• Hornblower : How are you, Archie?

  Kennedy : Hungry.

  Hornblower : Great, I will have the innkeeper send you some food. Ham and eggs, possibly. Some trout...

  Kennedy : Horatio, there is something I have to tell you...

  Hornblower : Oh, don't you worry about anything. Let's just get you back your feet, eh?

  Kennedy : The duchess isn't a duchess. Cleopatra laying at Mark Antony's feet, maybe. Cleopatra, Macbeth, Gertrude. But she is no duchess.

  Hornblower : Archie, what are you talking about?

  Kennedy : She is an actress. Her name is Catherine Cobham.

  Hornblower : You're mistaken.

  Kennedy : No, I'm not. Drury Lane was once my home, and I had saw her performed. Mark my words, Horatio. She is an actress.

• Kennedy : I was having a fit wasn't I?

  [a beat] 

  Kennedy : Strange, I never had any trouble with them... until you came.

  Kennedy : [frightened]  I will not go back to The Indy, do not ask me!

• Kennedy : [observing the men]  They're planning something, Horatio.

  Hornblower : Archie, do you know Spanish?

  Kennedy : A little.

  [Horatio hands Archie a book written in Spanish and walks off] 

• Kennedy : [upon seeing a storm outside] 

  [faintly] 

  Kennedy : No walk for you today, Horatio. A pity, you walk with such lovely company.

  Hornblower : Do you have a sweetheart in England, Archie?

  [no response] 

  Hornblower : Archie?

  [no repsonse] 

  Hornblower : [more worried]  Archie?

  [he runs over to Archie and pats his face] 

  Hornblower : [caling out]  Archie!

  [runs to the door and bangs on it] 

  Hornblower : Guard! Guard! Hunter, call for help.

  M'Man Hunter : Why?

  Hornblower : [races back over to Kennedy, and tries to wake him]  Archie? What's happening to him?

  M'Man Hunter : Starvation.

  Hornblower : We gave him the same rations as ours.

  M'Man Hunter : He didn't eat them.

  Hornblower : But why?

  [pause] 

  Hornblower : Why didn't you tell me this before?

  Don Massaredo : [a few moments later] 

  [upon seeing Horatio standing in the rain and carrying Archie] 

  Don Massaredo : What is the meaing of this?

  Hornblower : He's dying!

  [carries Archie inside and places him in bed] 

  Hornblower : Archie, why did you do this?

  Duchess of Wharfedale : [enters the room]  What's happened to him?

  Hornblower : [upset]  He's been starving himself! And I haven't noticed- I didn't notice because I was carrying on conversations on clifftops.

  Kennedy : [seemingly concious, to the Duchess]  The crow o' earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war...

  Hornblower : Archie, what are you saying?

  Duchess of Wharfedale : Sssh... just rest.

  Kennedy : Are level now with men; the odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visting moon.

  Hornblower : What is he saying?

  Duchess of Wharfedale : He's delirious.

  Hornblower : No, it wasn't like that. It was from something.

• Hornblower : Archie, I would do the exact same. If I were in this position...

  Kennedy : But you're not, and you never would be.