The Avengers (TV Series)

The Nutshell (1963)

Honor Blackman: Catherine Gale

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• John Steed : What's happened?

  Laura : Something we thought never could. Disco is waiting to give you the details himself.

  John Steed : Disco, what's he doing here?

  Catherine Gale : Who's Disco?

  Laura : Director of Intelligence, Security and Combined Operations.

  John Steed : The man we never meet...

• Disco : Early this morning, someone got in here without authority, used the correct sequence pattern on these, and copied Big Ben.

  Catherine Gale : What is it?

  Disco : The name means: Bilateral Infiltration, Great Britain, Europe and North America. It is a document which lists all known double agents on both sides in the cold war. In hostile hands, it can deal a death blow to every allied agent operating on the wrong side of the iron curtain. Needless to say, if we fail to get it back, we face a large scale national disaster. And that's only half the problem. The other half is worse.

• Catherine Gale : [taking an elevator down inside a top secret building]  What's at the bottom of here?

  John Steed : Nutshell: Thermonuclear Underground Target Zone Shelter. The siege of government for World War Three.

  Catherine Gale : This is where everyone hides when the push comes?

  John Steed : No, not everyone, I'm afraid, only the top people. The deeper you go, the safer it gets. The bottom floor's reserved for the best people, the civil servants get off at the, heh, 43rd floor.

• Mike Venner : How urgent is this?

  Catherine Gale : It's not, its emergency.

• Catherine Gale : [Steed has been imprisoned and is denied food]  How are you, Steed?

  John Steed : I'm losing weight.