Return of the Saint (TV Series)

Murder Cartel (1979)

Ian Ogilvy: Simon Templar

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Quotes 

• Simon Templar : [narrating]  Dallas, 1963. Memphis, 1968. The crack of the assassin's gun. The panic, the confusion. It's all there, stark and real on the television screen. And for a moment, you feel involved. But only, for a moment.

  [a phone starts ringing] 

  Simon Templar : Well, this time I am in involved. How or why, I don't know yet. Maybe I'm just about to find out.

  [picks up the receiver] 

• Hendricks : Eight and a half minutes. Thanks, Simon.

  Simon Templar : Well, I can recognize urgency.

  Hendricks : For urgency, read 'panic'. Look, Simon, old friends don't need to be tactful. In the next hour, I've got to disappear.

  Simon Templar : Well, disappearing always was one of your specialities, Jim.

  Hendricks : Oh, I mean like vanish right off the side of the Earth. So not even my own people could find me. Yeah, especially not them. There's a leak in the agency bigger than the Niagara falls.

  Simon Templar : Ok, consider yourself vanished.

• Vidal : Now, tell me something about Senator Reilly. It was a very dangerous contract.

  Simon Templar : [posing as hitman Brown]  I didn't kill Senator Reilly and you know damn well I didn't kill him. He died of a heart attack exactly three minutes before I was due to hit him.

• Laura : Why did you follow Vidal, señor Brown?

  Simon Templar : Reconnaissance. I like to find out about the people I'm working for, whether they're amateurs or professionals.

  Laura : And what did you find out?

  Simon Templar : That Vidal is as easy to follow as a protest march and your protection consists of a couple of kids who couldn't guard an icecream stall.

  Laura : Hm. Really, señor Brown? What were you expecting, private armies? Electric fences?

• Simon Templar : I'm going back inside the villa.

  Valerio : Huh? Oh, señor Templer, if antything, eh, should happen to you...

  Simon Templar : Oh, Valerio, I am touched.

  Valerio : ...who would pay me?