SS-GB (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (2017)

Sam Riley: Douglas Archer

Quotes 

• Dr. Oskar Huth : ...Clear?

  Douglas Archer : Unforgettably so, sir.

  Dr. Oskar Huth : Any breach of this instruction is not only a capital offence under Section 134 of the Military Orders of the Commander-in-Chief Great Britain,for which the penalty is a firing squad, but also under Section 11 of your own Emergency Powers German Occupation Act 1941, for which they hang offenders at Wandsworth Prison.

  Douglas Archer : Would the hanging or the shooting come first, sir?

  Dr. Oskar Huth : We must always leave something for the jury to decide.

• Dr. Oskar Huth : You were on your way to a party?

  Douglas Archer : There's a reception at The Savoy in your honour, Standartenfuhrer Dr. Huth.

  Dr. Oskar Huth : Kellermann. He has the subtlety of a pig. What else does he have planned for me?

  Douglas Archer : General Kellermann thought you might like to see the Houses of Parliament on the way, sir.

  Dr. Oskar Huth : As I say, a pig.

  Douglas Archer : Does that mean you would or wouldn't like to see the Houses of Parliament?

  Dr. Oskar Huth : It means, my dear Superintendent, that I do not have the slightest intention of spending the evening watching a roomful of army officers and their overdressed women guzzling champagne and, between mouthfuls of smoked salmon, telling me the best place to buy Staffordshire china.

• Dr. Oskar Huth : I'm afraid the blame is Winston Churchill's. None of this need have happened.

  Douglas Archer : Well, from what I heard, he paid his debt.

  Dr. Oskar Huth : The rumours, the V sign in the face of the firing squad, pure propaganda put out by your Resistance.

• Dr. Oskar Huth : You sent the files to the Feldgendarmerie straightaway. And within the hour, the SS claimed them back and a teleprinter message from Berlin instructed the army to pass all papers back to you.

  Douglas Archer : But that instruction could've only come from the Supreme Commander.

  Dr. Oskar Huth : Heil Hitler.