Sharpe (TV Series)
Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
Peter-Hugo Daly: Sgt. Bickerstaff
Quotes
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Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff : Easier to be brave, with rank and new sunlight behind! I hope you sleep light, Colonel, lest you find some morning you wake up to find your throat slit!
Richard Sharpe : Is that a threat, Sergeant?
Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff : You take it as you please.
Richard Sharpe : Oh, I do. So come on, let's sort it out here and now, just you and me.
Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff : [laughs] I weren't born yesterday neither, Colonel. 'Tis a hanging offense to strike an officer!
Richard Sharpe : But like you said, I'm no company officer.
Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff : All the same, I'll not hit a man wearing the King's Uniform.
Richard Sharpe : No? No? Well that's easily remedied.
[starts unbuttoning his uniform when Bickerstaff sucker punches and kicks him in the face]
Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff : Officers?
[laughs as he walks away]
Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff : I've shat 'em!
Richard Sharpe : Shadrach.
[Bickerstaff turns and Sharpe knocks his teeth out]
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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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Richard Sharpe : [grabs Bickerstaff while the sergeant is beating an Indian soldier] Damnit! Stand off!
Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff : Mind your damn business!
Richard Sharpe : I'm not going to tell you again.
Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff : Who in the bloody hell are you to give me orders? You're no company officer!
Richard Sharpe : No, Sgt. Bickerstaff, I'm not. I'm from a proper army, that knows how to deal with bullying bastards like you!
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Sgt Shadrach Bickerstaff : May I say, how grateful I am, sir, for giving me this chance to prove myself...
William Dodd : You've proven yourself already. As a model of self-interest! I confess, you put even my *own* ambitions to shame!