A Deadly Game (1979 TV Movie)

David Hemmings: Charlie Muffin

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Quotes 

• Charlie Muffin : The old sod owes me an apology.

  Janet : Sir Henry Cuthbertson, Bart.? No way. I know him, Charlie; he was my godfather long before he was your boss. He's a bastard.

  Charlie Muffin : So am I. Funny thing is that none of them realize it.

• Sir Archibald Willoughby : Well, I won't say be careful, Charlie; no damn sense in that. But remember the first rule.

  Charlie Muffin : Always secure an escape route.

• Snare : [seeing Charlie cleaning his leather-stained feet]  What the hell do you think you're doing?

  Charlie Muffin : Washing my feet.

  Snare : Very biblical. Can you do miracles too?

  Charlie Muffin : Yes. I can come back from the dead out of burning Volkswagens.

• Charlie Muffin : [referring to CIA Agent Braley]  I want him there, and always within ten yards.

  Braley : Ten yards?

  Charlie Muffin : You see, at that range I'm classified as an expert shot.

• Valery Kalenin : [referring to Harrison's death]  If Harrison hadn't run, he would be alive.

  [he looks at Charlie] 

  Valery Kalenin : Why do people always run?

  Charlie Muffin : [returns the look]  Lack of experience.

• Wilberforce : [Charlie plans to travel to Moscow to meet with Kalenin]  It'll take us more than a week to organize your cover.

  Charlie Muffin : *You* organized the cover for Snare and for Harrison. One's dead, the other's in Lubyanka.

• Charlie Muffin : [he's just learned Cox will be driving a decoy car]  If we do have to change cars, look in the boot, will you?

  Cox : Why?

  Charlie Muffin : Because a guy's gone out to put a bomb in it.

• Valery Kalenin : I've heard you're very sensible.

  Charlie Muffin : I'm a survivor.

  Valery Kalenin : Aren't we all?

• Janet : [she and Charlie have been making love]  I'm very fond of you, Charlie, you know.

  Charlie Muffin : Yeah, you must be to do what you've just been doing. Where'd you learn it?

  Janet : Finishing school

  Charlie Muffin : Well, it bloody near finished *me*, I can tell you that much!

• Sir Archibald Willoughby : [meeting Charlie at his and Cuthbertson's club]  World keeping you busy, Charlie?

  Charlie Muffin : Well, I think I shall be busy soon enough, sir, yes.

  Sir Archibald Willoughby : Oh, I say, I hope to God he wasn't briefing you in here! Even panelled walls have ears, you know.

• Cuthbertson : [to Ruttgers, referring to Charlie and Braley]  My only misgiving is that we have to put our faith in two frightened men.

  [Ruttgers grunts in agreement] 

  Charlie Muffin : [looking right at both Directors]  Better two frightened men than two psychopaths.

• [first lines] 

  Snare : So Harrison goes first?

  Charlie Muffin : Don't you two have first names? Harrison and Snare, then? Christ, you were at school together!

• Snare : [they're watching the East-West Berlin crossing station from the East Berlin side]  Looks quiet enough.

  Charlie Muffin : Don't be stupid. It's tighter than a duck's bum up there.

• Charlie Muffin : [lecturing Cuthbertson, Wilberforce, Snare and Harrison]  Always comply with the civil laws of the country you're spying on.

• Charlie Muffin : [to Cuthbertson, Wilberforce, Snare and Harrison]  I believe that my meeting with Berenkov was one of the most productive I can ever remember having had with a captured spy.

• Berenkov : Don't ever get put in jail, Charlie.

  Charlie Muffin : Oh, I won't.

  Berenkov : I mean it!

  [Charlie glances at him] 

  Berenkov : If you get put in jail, your lot won't do anything to get you out. If you get caught... kill yourself.

  [both men are silent] 

• Charlie Muffin : The next time I contact Kalenin, I want *him*

  [pointing to Braley] 

  Charlie Muffin : with me because if I have a CIA man by my side, I won't have the same bad luck as Snare and Harrison, will I?

  Ruttgers : But that's -...

  Charlie Muffin : That's *me* setting *you* up.