Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Rifles (1993)

Michael Mears: Francis Cooper

Quotes 

• Richard Sharpe : Gimme a pick-lock, Cooper.

  Cooper : Pick-lock, sir? Catch me with a pick-lock!

  Patrick Harper : They did, Coop. But when you got out of Newgate prison, you got another set, and that's the one the officer wants.

  Cooper : Do I get it back, sir?

  Richard Sharpe : Trust me.

  Cooper : It's very hard to trust a man who wants to borrow your pick-lock, sir.

• Cooper : Can I ask you a question, sir? Where'd you learn to fight so dirty, sir?

  Richard Sharpe : Same place as you, Cooper. Saturday night in the gutters.

  Cooper : Long way from home, sir.

  Richard Sharpe : Never was much of a home, Cooper.

  Cooper : No, sir. That it weren't.

  Richard Sharpe : Did you volunteer for this lot, Cooper?

  Cooper : Uh no, not exactly sir. I was invited to join... by a magistrate.

• Richard Sharpe : Name?

  Cooper : Cooper, sir.

  Richard Sharpe : Where you from, Cooper?

  Cooper : Shoreditch, sir.

  Richard Sharpe : Previous employment?

  Cooper : By way of a trader, sir. In... property and the like.

  Richard Sharpe : Would that be other people's property, Cooper?

• Patrick Harper : [about Sharpe]  He's no proper officer. Never seems to tire, hard to catch him off guard.

  Cooper : He let you off light, Harps. Back in the village. So why so hard?

  Patrick Harper : It's just not right, Cooper. He's not happy being an officer. And mark my words, he'll bring us bad luck.

  [thinks it over] 

  Patrick Harper : We'll do it tomorrow. In the mountains.

• Patrick Harper : Sweet is the silent mouth, Cooper.

  Cooper : Didn't say a word, did I?