The Avengers (TV Series)

The Morning After (1969)

Patrick Macnee: John Steed

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Quotes 

• Tara King : Merlin worked for us once, didn't he?

  John Steed : Us, them, they, whoever pays the highest price.

  Tara King : A double agent.

  John Steed : Quadruple would be nearer the mark. He's the artiste superieur of the double double double... double cross.

• John Steed : Harold Thomas Cartney. Cartney... Now that seems to ring a bell.

  Jimmy Merlin : Yes, an alarm bell. People are shooting at people 'round here!

• John Steed : We'll sneak back throug the side roads.

  Jimmy Merlin : Sneak back! Give me three reasons why?

  John Steed : Tara's still there and I want to find out what's going on.

  Jimmy Merlin : I said three.

  John Steed : I'm extremely stubborn.

  Jimmy Merlin : Well I'll give you three: I don't want to be a hero, they're not paying me and whatevers going on, I'm not curious about it.

• Jimmy Merlin : Oh Steed, let me of the hook. Undo these things and let me take my chance alone.

  John Steed : I wouldn't hear of it.

  Jimmy Merlin : I'm too young to die!

  John Steed : You're over 21.

  Jimmy Merlin : If I were 80 I'd still feel the same.

• Yates : Well it's still incredible that you don't know, the whole world knows.

  John Steed : Well I hate the whole world having us at an disadvantage.

• Jimmy Merlin : [Steed releases Merlin from the handcuffs that bind them]  I'm touched. I'm really touched by your concern.

  John Steed : I don't want to find myself dragging around a dead man.

• John Steed : You gave me your word.

  Jimmy Merlin : Well that was before I knew you were intend on murder. Murdering me!