Dark Shadows (TV Series)
Episode #1.305 (1967)
Jonathan Frid: Barnabas Collins
Quotes
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Burke Devlin : Barnabas, I wonder about something.
Barnabas Collins : What is it?
Burke Devlin : I wonder whether, we really like each other?
Barnabas Collins : Why do you wonder that?
Burke Devlin : Well, by the way we talk to each other, the way we intimate things without actually coming out and saying what's in our minds. As if we're playing a card game, with very high stakes.
Barnabas Collins : What an interesting observation, and an interesting simile! A card game...
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Barnabas Collins : I'll tell you something. I think of our relationship as more of a duel: two superb swordsmen with highly sharpened blades. You thrust, I parry... I thrust, you parry.
Burke Devlin : I prefer my simile to yours.
Barnabas Collins : Why?
Burke Devlin : Well, mine is merely a game, which one either wins or loses, depending on the cards.
Barnabas Collins : And mine?
Burke Devlin : Well, yours seems to be a matter of complete desperation: life or death. To lose a duel with you would be to lose everything, including one's life.
Barnabas Collins : But isn't that the purpose of a duel?
Burke Devlin : If a duel is necessary. Is it?
Barnabas Collins : Well, that can't be determined, until the sword is in one's hand. But you make me sound so evil, when all the time the stakes of a card game could also be the same: life or death.
Burke Devlin : I think we've played ourselves into a stalemate.
Barnabas Collins : A temporary one.
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Burke Devlin : Shall we drink, then? To either the deck of cards or the sabers, whichever it's to be?
Barnabas Collins : That certainly is worthy of a toast.
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Barnabas Collins : Thank you for the brandy.
Burke Devlin : Thank you, for playing the game.