Covington Cross (TV Series)

Armus Returns (1992)

Tim Killick: Armus Grey

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• Armus Grey : During the crusades, I didn't fight - I was a cook. I trained so hard for the right to do battle for my king - to take my rightful place as father's son. I looked forward to the day I would lift a sword in combat. When that day came... I didn't see him at first. A knight to my rear warned me. I swung 'round, my broadsword wielded. The blade thrust into his belly... the life drained so quickly from his face. He was a boy like me. He watched me watching him die. It was as though it was happening to someone else.

  Eleanor Grey : You killed in self-defense.

  Armus Grey : The kill came so easily. I'll never forget the feeling of power it gave me - a feeling I had no wish to acquire a taste for.

• Richard Grey : I went to bed every night wanting to be just like you. I dreamt I was you.

  Armus Grey : I dreamt I was you.

  Richard Grey : Me?

  Armus Grey : There's nothing I would rather have been than a second son.

  Richard Grey : But that's the worst thing to be.

  Armus Grey : You're the lucky one. You can be whatever's in your heart. I had to be what was in father's heart - just as he had to be what was in his father's.

• Richard Grey : They are serving food in the Great Hall, you know.

  Armus Grey : It may be something one ingests by mouth, brother, but it's certainly not food. Besides which I couldn't bear to spend another moment in the same room with John Mullens. His disposition hasn't improved over the years.

  Eleanor Grey : You don't know the half of it.

  Armus Grey : [referring to the lovely Alexandra Mullens]  And who, by the way, is that creature with him? And more importantly, why?

• Richard Grey : Why didn't you shoot?

  Armus Grey : I couldn't.

  Richard Grey : What do you mean "you couldn't"?

  Armus Grey : I'm not the kind of knight you think I am, Richard.