THE NEW AVENGERS
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"TO CATCH A RAT"
GAMBIT: Steed can you tell me about this incident in Istanbul? Devilish clever use of the garlic sausage.
PURDEY: I was just trying to remember what I was doing 17 years ago.
GAMBIT: Eating Marshmallows probably, you haven’t changed a bit. Well, maybe a bit, but the right bit.
PURDEY: It was a Wednesday I think…yeah…and my parents took us boating and this awful man came up to me and said…
GAMBIT
(distracted): How about here?PURDEY: He certainly did not!
GAMBIT: I meant how about here for going round and round?
PURDEY: What about you 17 years ago?
GAMBIT: Me? I was discovering sex.
PURDEY: What a waste of time, you might have been learning to drive.
AFTER COMING TO A STOP IN THE RANGE ROVER
PURDEY: That’s better. I mean, going round and round is quite nice but it loses its enchantment after a bit.
(Looks over at Gambit) Anyway, from what I hear, you’ve already been around quite a bit.GAMBIT: Been at keyholes again, Purdey?
PURDEY: It’s common knowledge in the department.
GAMBIT: Just hearsay.
PURDEY: The typing pool affair?
GAMBIT: Rumour.
PURDEY: The undersecretary’s undersecretary?
GAMBIT: Jealousy.
PURDEY: The Russian countess, so called?
GAMBIT: Ah, yes, well…um…that was an undercover job and I took them literally.
PURDEY: What do you mean?
GAMBIT: Under…cover
(Purdey just stares at him) ‘Undercover’.PURDEY:
(Tuts and looks away) Let’s go round and round again.
AFTER BURSTING INTO A CHURCH WITH GUN POINTED ONLY TO SEE TWO WOMEN ARRANGING FLOWERS
PURDEY: Take your hands off me you brute! You can’t make me do it. I’ll never marry you, never! I hate you.
PURDEY RUNS OUT AND LEAVES A SHEEPISH LOOKING GAMBIT TO GULITILY PLACE MONEY INTO THE COLLECTION BOX BEFORE GOING OUT TO JOIN HER AT THE CAR…
PURDEY: Quick thinking, eh? I got us out of a tricky situation without any embarrassment.
GAMBIT: No embarrassment, no embarrassment at all. Probably happens all the time, they’ll think no more of it.
STEED: You see my position Minister? I must suspect everyone. My recurring nightmare is that one day I might even have to arrest myself.
PURDEY: You’re dying to know aren’t you? How I knew about the scar on Cromwell’s leg.
STEED: Well, it was rather high up.
PURDEY: You’re just bursting with curiousity aren’t you?
GAMBIT: Frankly, yes.
PURDEY: Well…
(stage whisper) a real gentleman doesn’t ask a lady a question like that.
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