The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV Series)

Usher II (1990)

Patrick Macnee: Stendahl

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• Bigelow : Is it everything you wanted, Mr. Stendahl?

  Stendahl : Yes.

  Bigelow : Is it desolate and terrible?

  Stendahl : Very terrible.

  Bigelow : The walls are bleak?

  Stendahl : Amazingly so.

  Bigelow : The sedge, we dyed it, you know. Is it properly hideous?

  Stendahl : It's beautiful.

• Stendahl : There's always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the past, afraid of the future, afraid of themselves.

• Garrett : Now suppose you tell me about this place, Mr. Stendahl.

  Stendahl : It's a haunted castle, if you like.

  Garrett : I don't like, Mr. Stendahl. I don't like.

• Stendahl : Oh Garrett, do you know why I've done this to you? Because you banned and burnt books without even reading them. You listened to other people's advice as to whether they were harmful. Now, if you'd read Mr. Poe's books, you would've realized what I was going to do when I brought you down here. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.

• Stendahl : In this house, copper bats fly in make-believe attics. Brass rats scuttle in plastic cellars. Robot skeletons rattle in dreary closets.

  Garrett : Robot skeletons?

  Stendahl : Vampires, wolves, phantoms. Done with chemicals and ingenuity.

• Garrett : Mr. Stendahl, what exactly is going on here?

  Stendahl : Murder.

  Garrett : Murder?

  Stendahl : Murder most foul!

• Garrett : What are you doing?

  Stendahl : I'm being ironic. Never interrupt a man when he's being ironic. It's not polite.