The Avengers (TV Series)
The Girl from Auntie (1966)
Patrick Macnee: John Steed
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Quotes
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John Steed : Six bodies in an hour and twenty minutes. What do you call that?
Georgie Price-Jones : A good first act.
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Georgie Price-Jones : [having just smashed a vase on Steed's head] Steed! I thought you were an old lady with a bale and knitting needles.
John Steed : They do say I take after granny.
Georgie Price-Jones : Are you all right?
John Steed : I should get my armoured hat on.
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[Steed attempts to enter Ivanoff's hotel room by delivering a bound-and-gagged imitation Emma Peel to his doorstep]
Joseph Ivanoff : Who's there?
John Steed : Special delivery... perishables.
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John Steed : What are you knitting?
Arkwright : A bungalow.
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Georgie Price-Jones : What are you doing?
John Steed : Looking for clues.
[rummages through some papers]
Georgie Price-Jones : Oh, I see. Clues!
[picks up a notebook and starts reading]
John Steed : [reading] Nine o'clock appointment with Auntie...
Georgie Price-Jones : Steed, listen to this: S1, K9, K2 tog toble eck.
John Steed : Well?
Georgie Price-Jones : Don't you see, it's a code. It seemed very clue-like.
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John Steed : [there are four men lying unconscious on the floor] Do you know these gentlemen?
Aunt Hetty : What John, Paul, George and Fred? Well of course I know them. You can get up now, they're my favourite nephews. Absolutely my favourite.
Aunt Hetty : Nephews?
Aunt Hetty : Naturally. And I like to think that I am their favourite auntie.
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John Steed : Do you recognize these?
[hands him a pair of knitting needles]
Arkwright : Do I? This is one of our special double O's, we had some stolen from the storeroom last week.
John Steed : Why would anyone want to steal them?
Arkwright : Industrial sabotage, put the whole schedule a week behind.
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Receptionist : Exactly what kind of treasure can we obtain for you, Mr. ffitch?
John Steed : [posing as Wayne Peddyfeather ffitch] That is not for your Botticelli ears.
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Old Lady : I'm collecting for the dog's home.
John Steed : A very worthy cause, please come in.
[leads her into his apartment]
John Steed : Our four legged friends need all the help they can get. Now what will it be, bones or cash?
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Gregorie Auntie : [Steed hears a gun being cocked, manoeuvres in front of the Mona Lisa] Admiring the brushwork, Mr. ffitch?
John Steed : I thought you were less likely to shoot me standing in front of a Da Vinci.
John Steed : How right you are.
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Georgie Price-Jones : What's so special about this Mrs. Emma Peel? You'd think she was Madame Currie and half a dozen others all rolled into one.
John Steed : Her vital statistics. Of the I.Q. variety. Hold that
[hands over a roll of bandages]
John Steed : She knows about cyphers, centered fuels, cybernetics and that's what's Ivanov is interested in.
Georgie Price-Jones : Well it just so happens that I nearly passed through college, I was going to specialise in -
John Steed : Excuse me...
[places a band aid over her mouth]
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Emma Peel : [having finally escaped her oversized birdcage] And no cracks please about birds in gilded cages.
John Steed : As if I would.
Georgie Price-Jones : Are you alright? We've been so worried about you.
John Steed : Oh, Mrs. Emma Peel, meet, eh... Mrs. Emma Peel...
Emma Peel : [not particularly amused] How do you do?
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John Steed : I'm to deliver this to Mrs. Emma Peel.
Georgie Price-Jones : Well, I'm Mrs. Emma Peel.
John Steed : Eh, a friend of yours, John Steed send it.
Georgie Price-Jones : Steed?
John Steed : A small fat man with a gray moustache.
Georgie Price-Jones : Oh, of course, now I remember.