Queen of Swords (TV Series)

Duel with a Stranger (2000)

Valentine Pelka: Col. Luis Montoya

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Quotes 

• [holding a sword to Grisham's throat] 

  Antonio : Lesson 1: Make sure you choose your opponents, Captain. Don't let them choose you.

  Col. Luis Montoya : [to Grisham]  Maybe I should let him kill you...

  [pause] 

  Col. Luis Montoya : Not today.

• Col. Luis Montoya : These reports of your skill are true - the finest swordsman in Spain is also the finest in the Americas... and you will need to be if you're going to kill the Queen of Swords.

• Antonio : You confuse wealth with station.

  Col. Luis Montoya : No. It seems that you are the one who is confused. With enough cannons and gold, even the son of a lowly bureaucrat can aspire to become an emperor. You and I are both pragmatists, Don Antonio. We both know that everything has its price - including our honor.

• [to Grisham, who has just killed Antonio, the only person who knew the Queen of Sword's identity] 

  Col. Luis Montoya : It would warm my heart to think that your concern for my life was greater than your hatred for Antonio but I fear otherwise. Jealousy - I warned you about that earlier. Without discipline there is chaos and with chaos there is anarchy. Think of that tonight and learn that lesson.

• [last lines] 

  [Tessa is praying for Antonio's soul in her church] 

  Col. Luis Montoya : If I were not now in the house of God, I would curse her.

  Maria Teresa Alvarado : You know, the Queen of Swords didn't kill Antonio.

  Col. Luis Montoya : If it were not for her, you would sailing right now for Spain with...

  Maria Teresa Alvarado : Please don't.

  Col. Luis Montoya : I am sorry. I should not speak of such things. Mark me, Dona Alvarado, someday soon the Queen will pay for all the suffering she has brought down on all our heads. I am sure I join you in praying for her swift and timely death.

• Antonio : Is the Queen of Swords worth the gold I carry?

  Col. Luis Montoya : You are carrying one thousand reales in gold.

  Maria Teresa Alvarado : [to Marta]  He will not betray me.

  Col. Luis Montoya : That is twice the price we agreed to.

  Antonio : Yes, that's true, but if you want the Queen of Swords, you are in no position to argue.

  Col. Luis Montoya : I would pay ten times that to see her head on a pike in the village square.

  Antonio : Very well.

  Col. Luis Montoya : That was well done, Don Antonio. You have finally named the price for your honor.

  [Antonio throws the stolen gold to the ground] 

  Antonio : I cannot sell something I have already lost.