- [first lines]
- Simon Templar: [narrating] This is where the English Kings went riding, long ago, to get rid of their hangovers. Nowadays it isn't the exercise people come for, it's the scenery. You see what I mean?
- [three ladies on horseback arrive from the opposite direction]
- Simon Templar: The view can be... quite enchanting.
- Maureen Driscoll: So tomorrow's the big day?
- Christine Hanson: Maybe bigger than anybody thinks. Maybe tomorrow heads will start to roll. Right into the gutter where they belong.
- Simon Templar: Now just who is your sister and why has she suddenly become part of my life?
- Gerri Hanson: It's a long story.
- Simon Templar: Well shorten it. I like to know why I look down gunbarrels.
- Simon Templar: MI5 is certainly leading a rather an austere existence these days.
- Geoffrey Connaught: We even have to buy our own cups of tea.
- Simon Templar: Disgraceful.
- Geoffrey Connaught: You're wasting your time, you know, Simon.
- Simon Templar: Yes, so I've often been told.