Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Challenge (2006)

Daragh O'Malley: Patrick Harper

Quotes 

• 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?

• Patrick Harper : Come on now lads... three to one? That's not fair odds.

  Richard Sharpe : They don't want fair odds, Pat.

• Patrick Harper : How long do you think the outer wall will hold?

  Richard Sharpe : It's not meant to hold. It's meant to *come down*!

  Patrick Harper : There's nothing more teasing to a besieging army than a great bloody breach...!

• Richard Sharpe : I thought you were dead, Pat!

  Patrick Harper : I can't be watching your arse if I'm dead, now can I?

• Patrick Harper : [points his volley gun at Bickerstaff]  Say hello to Mr Nock!

• Patrick Harper : [enemy cavalry have captured him and Sharpe in their land]  It's about time!

• General Sir Henry Simmerson : For a horse dealer, Mr. Harper, you seem remarkably well informed!

  Patrick Harper : Well sir you see, a horse dealer picks up more round and about, than just shit on his boots, sir.

• Richard Sharpe : What do you reckon then, Pat? This Khande Rao can be taken?

  Patrick Harper : Well, he has a reputation of being a real monster.

  Mohan Singh : [comes up from behind a tent]  If he is a monster, Mr. Harper, then he's one of British making.

  Richard Sharpe : How's that, Captain?

  Mohan Singh : The Company have only maintained the peace here by keeping the princes at each other's throats. Khande Rao's father: he feared his neighbours more than he hated the British. And so it was your country that kept him supplied with arms.

  Patrick Harper : That sounds just like the English, getting someone else to do its dirty work!

  Mohan Singh : The son is not the father, however. Khande Rao wants you out of our country, once and for all. It is a view with which I cannot say I do not have some sympathy.

  Richard Sharpe : So why are you fighting with us?

  Mohan Singh : Khande Rao is... a sworn enemy of my blood. And that makes you my enemy's enemy, and therefore, a necessary evil. Good day to you

  [inclines his head] 

  Mohan Singh : both.

  [Leaves] 

  Patrick Harper : I don't think I like the sound of that. A necessary evil...

  Richard Sharpe : Have we ever been else?

  Patrick Harper : Oh... and there was me thinking we were always on the side of the angels.

• Patrick Harper : You're a long way from home, Richard. Are you lost?

• Mohan Singh : Mr. Harper! Well, it would appear we have been premature in our prayers at your passing.

  Patrick Harper : Luck of the Irish, captain. You can't beat it!

• Patrick Harper : I've been a soldier too long. You know how it is.

• Richard Sharpe : [examining the Indian guns]  Rusted dog screw. Would you say this is good enough, Corporal Harper?

  Patrick Harper : That I wouldn't, Sergeant. No, that I wouldn't!

• General Sir Henry Simmerson : [staring at the head sent by Khande Rao]  They killed with a nail, McRae. A nail! Driven into his *skull!*

  Patrick Harper : He was, general, but not by any hammer. This is the work of jettis. Professional strongmen: killing people in interesting ways is part of their remit.

• Harper : [after Sharpe and Harper just escaped from the prison cell, only to be facing Dodd's professional killers]  Out of the frying pan...!

  Sharpe : it's just not our bloody night, Pat!

• Richard Sharpe : It's a right bloody mess. Simmerson's attack failed, Khande Rao's men are still all over the woods - and Gudin has recommended me for a medal for my part in the victory.

  Patrick Harper : Well, it wasn't an entirely unprofitable evening, then!

• Patrick Harper : So, wait a minute - you and me, we're gonna stop a rebellion, just the two of us?

  Richard Sharpe : Well, I see no bugger else.

  Patrick Harper : Yeah... that sounds just about right, just as long as you let me know!

• Richard Sharpe : Dodd. 'General Dodd will insist', Gudin said.

  Patrick Harper : Who is he?

  Richard Sharpe : The Company renegade you've been trying to find, for one.

  Patrick Harper : And for two?

  Richard Sharpe : A murdering bastard.

  Patrick Harper : Do you know him?

  [Sharpe nods] 

  Patrick Harper : - Does *he* know *you*?

  Richard Sharpe : He had a lot on his mind that day at Chaselgaon.

  Patrick Harper : Chaselgaon? - Shite! I'll take that as a 'Let's hope not', then.