The Avengers (TV Series)

The Murder Market (1965)

Diana Rigg: Emma Peel

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• Mr. Adrian Lovejoy : Togetherness will solve all your problems Mrs. Peel.

  Emma Peel : I only have one, Mr. Lovejoy. Finding a suitable partner.

  Mr. Adrian Lovejoy : We'll do our best. Now what are your requirements: age group, physical aspect? Just let me know what you want.

  Emma Peel : Well, he would have to be mature.

  Mr. Adrian Lovejoy : Hmm.

  Emma Peel : A man of culture, and intelligence.

  Mr. Adrian Lovejoy : [writing it down]  Mature, cultured, intelligent.

  Emma Peel : With stamina.

  Mr. Adrian Lovejoy : [long pause]  Quite so, yes.

• John Steed : Help yourself to coffee.

  Emma Peel : Always the perfect host!

  John Steed : [Steed is graphing something on paper]  Heh. Nine, ten... eleven!

  Emma Peel : Planning?

  John Steed : Plotting.

  Emma Peel : For your accountant? A museum of modern art?

  [traces a line on end of the graph downward with her finger] 

  Emma Peel : Or could it be... your popularity poll?

• John Steed : All the same, we may find out tomorrow. They should have found me a suitable partner by then... the marriage bureau. Hm! Advanced scientific - they analyze your personality and then find you a compatible companion.

  Emma Peel : That must have set them a problem.

  John Steed : Eh?

  Emma Peel : Finding a match for you.

  John Steed : Why, I don't know. Educated, charming, cultured.

  Emma Peel : Ruthless, devious, scheming. Hm! Have to be quite a girl. A mixture of Lucrezia Borgia and... Joan of Arc.

  John Steed : Sounds like every girl I ever knew. By the way my dear, isn't it high time you thought of marrying again?

  [Emma spits up into her champagne glass]