THE NEW AVENGERS
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ALONG WITH "FACES",
THE FOLLOWING EPISODE IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE’S. GREAT SCENE’S BETWEEN GAMBIT
AND PURDEY. THE STORY ITSELF IS REMINISCENT OF THE ORIGINAL SHOW TOO, WHICH IS
A PLUS.
"TARGET!"
MEYERS: Do you know
why I begged this lift, Purdey?
PURDEY: So you
could get me on my own, ask me out to dinner, worm your way into my affections,
date me regularly, ask me to marry you, have five scruffy children and live
happily ever after. (Long pause) Also, because your car is in dock and we both happen to be going
to the same place.
MEYERS: No, you
were right the first time.
MEYERS: (caressing Purdey’s shoulder) Purdey, the way I feel about
you…
PURDEY: (shrugging his hand off) It’s the way I object to.
MEYERS: You’re a
very wonderful human being, Purdey.
PURDEY: But a
terrible Kangaroo.
MEYERS: You do like
me a little then?
PURDEY: I like you
a lot. But then, I like Beethoven a lot.
MEYERS: Difference
is, he’s dead and I’m very much alive.
PURDEY: But you’re
playing in the wrong key.
MEYERS: Has anyone
ever got 100%?
BRADSHAW: John
Steed. Three times in a row. I always wondered if he was cheating.
GAMBIT: I like to
think there was a rulebook. Cricket and all that. But, there isn’t a book, just
one rule…stay alive.
PURDEY: I got 99%.
GAMBIT: Yes, but
it’s the 1% that kills you.
PURDEY: What are
you doing here?
GAMBIT: Looking for
you.
PURDEY: And now
you’ve found me, what are you doing here?
GAMBIT: A little
chat. I get lonely you see.
PURDEY: You’ll be a
recluse if you don’t get to the point.
GAMBIT: Five top
men dead from natural causes. Five supreme examples of manhood, struck down in
their prime.
PURDEY: Is there a
pattern?
GAMBIT: Er, not
that I can see.
PURDEY: (smiles smugly) Why didn’t you say so? You
want the benefit of my incisive mind.
GAMBIT: No…just a
second opinion.
PURDEY: Oh, come
on. Who’d want to kill me?
GAMBIT: Me. Unless
you promise to get in your car, go straight home, lock the door and don’t open
it until you hear from me.
PURDY: Mike…
GAMBIT: Now
promise, will you?
PURDEY: (begrudgingly) Alright. But it does make me
seem awfully stupid. (She gets into car)
GAMBIT: (shuts car door for her) Better to be stupid…than dead.
PURDEY: Gambit
you’re behaving like an old mother hen. But I do (silently mouths next part as
she rapidly reverses away) love you.
GAMBIT: (yells) You do what me? (Purdey just waves back and
drives off leaving him to shake his head and smile)
LOPEZ: Try this. (hands Steed a drink) It’s a distillation of my own
brew. Whisky, weed, bark and a little touch of snakehead. You like it?
STEED: A little
strong on the snakehead.
STEED: Why only
those who are going on leave?
GAMBIT: Plot to
disrupt the tourist board?
KENDRICK: You know
it’s funny.
GAMBIT: Not the way
I said it.
STEED AND GAMBIT ARE
RACING TO FIND THE ANTIDOTE FOR PURDEY, WHO IS DYING FROM POISONING.
GAMBIT: Steed, if
she dies…
STEED: I know, I
feel the same.
GAMBIT: I’ll hunt
them down and I won’t stop until I’ve found them.
STEED: We’ll hunt
them down. She means as much to me as she does to you. But, we’re all
expendable.
GAMBIT: I know the
rules, Steed. But it is Purdey.
ANTIDOTE
ADMINISTERED, PURDEY COMES AROUND...
STEED: Some party.
GAMBIT: Yes. Lucky
for you, we brought a bottle. (shows her antidote)
PURDEY: (looks dazed and then smiles) Are we going on somewhere?
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