Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series)

Armed and Extremely Dangerous (1985)

Michael Brandon: Dempsey

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Quotes 

• Dempsey : Can you get a pastrami sandwich in England?

  O'Grady : If you can't, I'll mail you one.

  Dempsey : On rye. Don't forget the pickle.

• Dempsey : Listen, babe...

  Makepeace : DON'T you babe me!

• Dempsey : [having just shot his traitorous partner]  Joey... you shoulda had me Joey... you shoulda had me.

• O'Grady : Now you listen to me good, Dempsey: we'll get Coltrane, but the time isn't right. And when it is, we'll need you.

  Dempsey : I'm here, what am I supposed to do, sit on my butt? Practice swimming with a bullet in my head and cement flippers?

  O'Grady : I'm getting you outta here.

• Spikings : Do you know the retail value of a lorryload of caviar?

  Dempsey : That's more than my per diem.

  Spikings : A 40 ton load would be 16 million quid.

  Dempsey : What's a quid?

  Spikings : Pound.

  [Dempsey whistles] 

• Makepeace : [posing as a waitress]  What you lot want?

  Spikings : Lager.

  Makepeace : What about you?

  Dempsey : [thinks for a moment]  Scotch on the rocks.

  Makepeace : Got no bleedin' rocks here, mate, you'll have to make do with a lump of ice.

• Makepeace : Look, leftenant...

  Dempsey : Lieutenant.

  Makepeace : Somehow I don't think this is going to work.

  Dempsey : Why is that?

  Makepeace : I mean, how can we carry this off, if we don't even like each other?

  Dempsey : Well who says we have to like each other? Lots of married couples hate each other's guts. We could be one of them. What do you say, Sharon, baby?

• Dempsey : If you need any help, just call me.

  Makepeace : I will, leftenant.

  Dempsey : Lieutenant. Lieutenant. You can say that, can't ya, sergeant? You just put your lips together and you go 'oooh'.

• Spikings : [barely controling his rage]  Instead of pretending to know where it is, why don't you just maybe go out and start looking for the caviar instead.

  Dempsey : [snaps fingers]  You know something? That's a good idea.

• Makepeace : What the hell is that?

  Dempsey : It ain't caviar.

• Dempsey : [to Makepeace]  It's my hunch, but it's your butt too.

• Makepeace : [trying to untie the ropes that bind them]  Maybe we're doing this the wrong way round.

  Dempsey : Huh?

  Makepeace : Maybe you should be doing this to me.

  Dempsey : Sergeant, this is not time for old world humor.

• Makepeace : Well how come you had already booked a suite when you told me it was a spur of the moment idea?

  Dempsey : Oh, it was a spur, it was just a different spur. Based on the advice of my father.

  [takes a bite of caviar] 

  Makepeace : Oh yes?

  Dempsey : Yeah, he always said: whenever you check into a new city, always reserve the honeymoon suite.

  Makepeace : Even when you're traveling alone?

  Dempsey : Well like my father said: you never know when you might get lucky.

  [offers her a spoonful of caviar] 

• Dempsey : Am I right or am I right?

  Makepeace : Relax, you're right!

  Dempsey : Thanks a lot.

• Makepeace : With the greatest respect, leftenant, there are several flaws in that argument...

  Dempsey : Believe me, sergeant, Believe this.

  [touches his nose] 

  Dempsey : Believe the nose. The nose knows. I'm telling you.

  Makepeace : I've got one too.

  Dempsey : Well don't it tell you nothing?