The Avengers (TV Series)

Quick-Quick Slow Death (1966)

Patrick Macnee: John Steed

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Quotes 

• Emma Peel : [upon seeing Steed's dance partner number on his back]  You're number 9.

  John Steed : And you're dancing with garlic sausage!

  [referring to the tattoo on her partner's wrist] 

• John Steed : Hate to see a good beer going into orbit.

• Emma Peel : But you didn't bring me here just to be a gunbarer?

  John Steed : No, I want you to meet someone, Willi Fehr. Used to be a top agent, now relegated to traffic control.

  Emma Peel : Traffic control?

  John Steed : Yes, for incoming spies. He looks after their accomodation, money, that sort of thing.

• Bank Manager : Yes, Arthur Peever had an account here.

  John Steed : Had? Then you know.

  Bank Manager : Yes... sad.

  John Steed : Very sad...

  Bank Manager : Very, very sad.

  John Steed : [the Bank Manager moves to another window, Steed follows]  Quite a shock.

  Bank Manager : Oh, shocking. Very shocking. When he came in here this morning...

  John Steed : This morning?

  Bank Manager : Walked right in, and closed his account.

  [the Bank Manager returns to his original window, Steed nearly goes the wrong way, then follows him] 

  Bank Manager : Bad!

  John Steed : Very bad.

  Bank Manager : Very, very bad.

• John Steed : Now you, Mrs. Peel, back to your pupils, and be quick-quick slow about it.