The New Avengers (TV Series)

Angels of Death (1977)

Gareth Hunt: Mike Gambit

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• Purdey : [running a computer programme]  You wouldn't believe how many permitations there are of possible links between 47 people.

  Mike Gambit : Roughly 47 multiplied by known variables to the power of 6.

  Purdey : Gambit, I didn't know you've read mathematics?

  Mike Gambit : I haven't. I do the football pools.

• Mike Gambit : Still with me?

  Purdey : Like paper on a wall.

• Purdey : [reading aloud a list of statistics]  25 of them went to Oxford.

  Mike Gambit : Ah!

  Purdey : 23 of them went to Cambridge.

  Mike Gambit : Oh...

  Purdey : One of them went to both.

  Mike Gambit : He must have been schizoid on boat race day.

• Mike Gambit : Dead?

  John Steed : Dead.

  Mike Gambit : Natural causes?

  John Steed : Natural causes.

  Mike Gambit : Well, there goes my number one suspect for sleeper of the century.

  John Steed : There goes one of the best friends I ever had...

• Mike Gambit : [Gambit has his hands raised for Jane is aiming a gun at him]  Jane, do you mind if I make a suggestion?

  Jane : Go ahead.

  Mike Gambit : Why not have dinner with me tomorrow night?

  [starts to lower arms but Jane quickly indicates him to keep his arms raised] 

• Purdey : Anyway, what's wrong with tall women?

  Mike Gambit : Nothing. Except you never know what you're getting up to.

  [raises eyebrows] 

• Mike Gambit : If they are dead, so are you.

  [aims pistol at close range] 

  Coldstream : In cold blood? Oh, come on...

  Mike Gambit : In hot blood, Coldstream. There's Irish on my granny's side.

• Mike Gambit : [having rescued Steed & Purdey from a maze]  Amazing...

• Jane : I am Jane.

  Mike Gambit : I could say I am Tarzan, but I don't think that's the moment.