Edge of Darkness (TV Mini Series)

Fusion (1985)

Joe Don Baker: Darius Jedburgh

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Quotes 

• Mrs Girvan : You forgot your sandwich again today, Mr "Jedborough".

  Darius Jedburgh : Mrs Girvan, mince between two slices of white bread is not my idea of lunch. Hell, I'd rather eat the damned Bible.

  Mrs Girvan : [indignant]  Mr "Jedborough"!

  Darius Jedburgh : [walking up stairs]  "JedBURG"!

• Darius Jedburgh : That's the problem with plutonium, Craven; it's limited in its application. It's not user-friendly. But as a vehicle for regaining one's self-respect, oh, it's got a lot going for it! Damn right I turned it into a bomb!

• Darius Jedburgh : Read between the lines of Jerry Grogan's speech. You will find not the Frontiersman, but the Teutonic Knight.

• Darius Jedburgh : [shouts at empty conference room]  Hey what's the matter? Don't y'all wanna be part of the New Age of plutonium lunacy?

• Darius Jedburgh : Honor went out the window the day they invented that stuff.

  [i.e. plutonium] 

• Craven : It seems rather hard on the rest of Scotland.

  Darius Jedburgh : Yeah, that's what I thought too. Especially the golf courses. So I decided against it.

• Darius Jedburgh : $500,000 million for a defense system for Washington DC seems a bit pricey to me, but then again, I don't live there.

• Darius Jedburgh : [to NATO conference]  This future nuclear state will be an absolute state, whose authority will derive not from the people but from the possession of plutonium. And just to make sure we all know what we're talking about her, I brought some of the stuff along with me today.

  [mixed reaction from audience as he pulls out briefcase] 

• Darius Jedburgh : [holding up plutonium]  A lethal dose to anyone within ten yards. Get it while it's hot!

• Darius Jedburgh : Man will always win against nature.