Alan Bates: Oliver

Quotes 

• [satisfied murmuring and groaning from the television] 

  Oliver : My word! That's impressive.

  WPC Diane Priest : You should be ashamed of yourself. What *are* you watching?

  Oliver : Simulated sexual intercourse.

  WPC Diane Priest : What's the programme?

  Oliver : I don't know? Wildlife on One. World in Action. Two-Way Family Favourites. Do we look like that?

  WPC Diane Priest : I expect so. We've got four buttocks between us. I dare say they heave in the regulation way. I've never watched.

  Oliver : I like sex better the way it used to be.

  WPC Diane Priest : Has there been some change I don't know about?

  Oliver : I liked it better when the boy kissed the girl and the next thing you saw were waves lapping on the seashore or smoke belching forth from a chimney or a train rushing into a tunnel.

  WPC Diane Priest : Ah you sweet old-fashioned thing.

• Baxter : I need you to restore my work - my security work.

  Oliver : Is there something wrong with your security work?

  Baxter : It has sprung a leak. I believe you two *are* the leak. I believe you two have acquired information that, from my point of view and the point of view of the people I work for and most of all from your point of view, is lethal.

  Oliver : Lethal?

  Baxter : In its precise dictionary definition: "causing death". Give me your lethal information.

  WPC Diane Priest : [scornfully]  And what do *we* get.

  Baxter : I hate to sound like a second-rate gangster, but you get to live.