Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series)
Blood Money (1985)
Michael Brandon: Dempsey
Quotes
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Lt. James Dempsey : Looks like a fancy schmancy doormat.
Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace : It's not meant for wiping your feet on, it's a prayer mat and it's made of silk.
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Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace : Present.
[hands Dempsey a book]
Lt. James Dempsey : Oh, you shouldn't have.
Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace : You're going to do some, eh, quick cramming on the antique business.
Lt. James Dempsey : Harry, I wouldn't know a chippendale from a chipmunk.
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Lt. James Dempsey : [Dempsey is playing a fey American art buyer] Oh! Look at this.
[holds up a prayer mat]
Lt. James Dempsey : Wouldn't this look divine in the john?
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Lt. James Dempsey : I'll tell ya something, the only difference between your scum and ours is that yours talk better. They sound intelligent. But low life is low life, I don't care what you dress em like.
Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace : Without low life, Dempsey, we'd be without jobs.
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Lt. James Dempsey : [gets into car] Hi there, miss, you always pick up strange men in the park?
Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace : No, only you. You're the only strange man I know.
Lt. James Dempsey : Really? You're innocence turns me on.
Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace : You're lack of it turns me off.
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Lt. James Dempsey : [Dempsey has just shielded Makepeace from a bomb explosion] Truth, Harry. Did the earth move?
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Lt. James Dempsey : [addressing a punk youth with a pink Mohawk] What is with hair anyway, you swallow a grenade or something?
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Lt. James Dempsey : [Makepeace looks cross at Dempsey as he lights a cigar in a hospital waiting room] What do you want me to do, knit?
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Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace : [shouting] Every time you're around, world war three explodes.
Lt. James Dempsey : You wanna hear an explosion, lady?
Nurse : Excuse me.
Lt. James Dempsey : What? Sorry.
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Lt. James Dempsey : [a middle-aged, overweight man, wearing nothing but a towel, fires at Dempsey until his handgun empties. Dempsey approaches him, and puts his gun to the man's head] *This* one is loaded!
Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace : [the man raises his hands and the towel falls to the floor. Makepeace walks up the stairs and spots the man standing now naked in front of Dempsey]
[ironically]
Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace : Am I interrupting something, Dempsey?