Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
André Maranne: Sergeant Francois Duval
Quotes
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Sergeant Francois Duval : [Visiting Dreyfus in hospital after Sergent Sleigh knocked him out his office window] Is there anything I can do for you?
[Dreyfus groans in pain]
Sergeant Francois Duval : Are you in much pain?
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : My leg hurts, but my throat is killing me.
Sergeant Francois Duval : You nearly choked to death on a goldfish
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : Where is he?
Sergeant Francois Duval : I don't know, I don't think they kept it.
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : Not the fish! Detective Sleigh!
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Sergeant Francois Duval : [answers call] Oh it's you, good afternoon, where are you?
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : [lying in a hospital bed and wrapped in heaps of bandages] I am in agony.
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Doctor : The explosion severely traumatized your left eardrum, but if you are careful and avoid all loud noises, partial hearing should be restored in a few days.
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : What about the ringing?
Doctor : I'm afraid that might take longer.
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : It's very loud, I keep wanting to answer the telephone.
Doctor : Just take the medicine I prescribe, and plenty of rest.
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : All right, thank you Doctor.
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : [after the doctor has left, and Francois is wheeling Dreyfus down the corridor of the hospital] What if I can't distinguish the difference between the ringing in my ear and the phone?
Sergeant Francois Duval : That could be a problem.
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : What?
Sergeant Francois Duval : It may not last much longer.
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : I couldn't stand it if it did. Where is Sleigh?.
Sergeant Francois Duval : On his way to Valencia
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : Valencia?
Sergeant Francois Duval : A tip from Sir Charles.
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : [Phone on wall starts ringing] There! It's getting worse.
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Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : You know, Francois, I have a horrible feeling we're seeing history repeat itself.
Sergeant Francois Duval : What do you mean?
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : When they were pulling out the... the goldfish, I remember thinking "Did Clouseau have any relatives in the States?"
Sergeant Francois Duval : You mean...? Oh, but that's impossible. You programmed the computer yourself.
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : [giggling nervously] Compared to me, I'm afraid Baron Frankenstein was a quack.
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Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : The president himself gave the order! And at 3:00 this morning, the commissioner woke me up to say he was putting me in charge. Me! Ha ha ha! And I've got one month to make Operation Paragon a success. Otherwise, I'll be back on the vice squad staking out pissoirs for what is left of my career.
Sergeant Francois Duval : Operation Paragon?
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : Yes. The president's idea. If France's greatest detective is missing, then get the world's greatest detective to find him.
Sergeant Francois Duval : And how do you find the world's greatest detective?
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : By computer. The commissioner's idea. Interpol has computer files on every law enforcement agency in the world. And I am supposed to program the computer to select Clouseau's clone.
Sergeant Francois Duval : But Clouseau...
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : Oh, you know he was an idiot, and I know he was an idiot. But the rest of the world sees him as a... as a fearless deductive genius, another Sherlock Holmes. And that's the type of man we are now looking for.
Sergeant Francois Duval : Then you have a problem.
Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus : Yes, because a man like this might find Clouseau. A horrible thought.