The Ipcress File (1965)
Nigel Green: Major Dalby
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Quotes
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Palmer : The fellow whose job I'm taking, will he show me the ropes?
Major Dalby : Maybe - if you're in touch with the spirit world.
Palmer : I beg your pardon?
Major Dalby : He was shot this morning.
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Raid Inspector : It looks as if all this has been laid on for nothing. That's not good enough.
Major Dalby : According to Central Clearing House, this operation was timed to start at 2.25. You started at 2.35. *That*'s not good enough!
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Major Dalby : The next time you use CC1 authority, just you make sure you have it!
Palmer : You know, it's funny... If Radcliffe had been here, I'd have been... a hero.
Major Dalby : He wasn't. And you're not.
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Major Dalby : The Americans have put a tail on Palmer.
Colonel Ross : How very tiresome of them.
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Major Dalby : [at the armorers] Give him your gun. Issue him with a Colt .32.
Murray : [hands Palmer a revolver] Do you know how to use this?
Palmer : Colt .32? Yes. I'd sooner have my automatic...
Major Dalby : [sternly] You'll use the Colt.
Palmer : I'll use the Colt.
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Major Dalby : [of Palmer's dossier] It isn't usual to read a B107 to its subject, Palmer; but I'm gonna put you straight. "Insubordinate. Insolent. A trickster. Perhaps with criminal tendencies."
Palmer : Yes, that's a pretty fair appraisal - sir.
Major Dalby : Good. That last quality might be useful. But if I have any trouble with you, Palmer, I shall *bite* you, Palmer, and I shall bite you so hard you'll go right back to where Ross found you!
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[Palmer and Dalby are attending a performance of a military band playing Mozart]
Palmer : Very neat. Must we sit through any more of this torture? I've got a lot of things to do.
Major Dalby : I think they're playing very well.
Palmer : Tell me who wins.
[gets up and leaves]
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Major Dalby : Spare us the jokes, Palmer, I don't have Colonel Ross's sense of humour.
Palmer : Yes, I will miss that, sir.
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Major Dalby : And we still have to find Radcliffe, gentlemen. That means more legwork and fewer inspired hunches.
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Major Dalby : Congratulations, Palmer. You've just killed an American agent.
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Major Dalby : A word in your shell-like ear: If there's anything to be reported to Ross, *I* report it. Understand?
Palmer : Yes, sir.