THE NEW AVENGERS
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"OBSESSION"
PURDEY: We’ve got to have a dog. Great big woofly thing to come bounding out to meet you when you come home.
LARRY: Big and woofly?
PURDEY: Definitely woofly.
STEED: Purdey, you’re a good girl.
GAMBIT: But we’re going to overlook that little flaw in your nature.
GAMBIT: She must be crazy.
STEED: She’s Purdey; she’s a woman.
STEED: We’ve got to check every eventuality.
LARRY: We? You include Purdey?
STEED: Yes, whenever I can.
GENERAL CANBY: Purdey, I shouldn’t have brought a present, should I? Well, this is a party, what’s it in aid of?
GAMBIT: It’s an anniversary, General.
GENERAL CANBY: Anniversary?
GAMBIT: Yes, an anniversary of the self same party, Steed held at this time last year. No idea what that was for either.
LARRY:
(to P) You belong to someone here?STEED:
(intervening) Yes, a beautiful woman belongs to the world.
GAMBIT: We haven’t been introduced, my name’s Mike Gambit, a friend of Purdey’s.
(HE HOLDS OUT HIS HAND TO SHAKE LARRY’S BUT THE OTHER MAN IGNORES HIM AND TRIES TO WALK BY THEN GAMBIT TAKES HOLD OF HIS ARM, STOPPING HIM) A close friend.
GAMBIT: Reliving the past? An old friend? Except that you and he didn’t look that, uh, friendly.
(Snaps fingers) Childhood sweetheart! Used to go for that type, eh?PURDEY: Look Gambit, as you’re so curious, I will tell you. It’s none of your business.
GAMBIT: I think there’s something you’re not telling me.
STEED: There’s a lot you’re not telling me, but I wouldn’t dream of asking.
GAMBIT: He had a gun pointed right at you, Purdey. Shoot to kill in those circumstances, those are the rules. That’s what they teach us. He would’ve used it, Purdey.
PURDEY: He wouldn’t have hurt me.
GAMBIT: I didn’t know that. I still don’t know that. What if it had been me, Purdey? What would you have done?
PURDEY: I don’t know. God help me, I don’t know.
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