Return of the Saint (TV Series)

The Nightmare Man (1978)

Ian Ogilvy: Simon Templar

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• Simon Templar : [narrating]  The champagne: chilled, the night: warm, the girl: beautiful. Paris at it's best. All in all, with a little luck and just a little cooperation, this could be a night to remember.

  [a woman starts to scream from another hotel room] 

• Detective George Caufield : No white-blond hitman known in the UK. Further, the Chief of Security at the Italian Ambassey tells me di Vallesi has no enemies, probably the least controversial man in Rome. As a matter of fact, even the Pope's a likelier target, satisfied?

  Simon Templar : No! Of course I'm not satisfied. I mean, for a start, the hitman's almost certainly an import! And well liked or not, di Vallesi may have a dozen enemies Italian Security knows nothing about.

  Detective George Caufield : Di Vallesi will have routine protection from the moment he arrives.

  [grabs a piece of paper from Simon's hands and slams it on the table] 

  Detective George Caufield : And that is the end of that.

  Simon Templar : Yes, well, George I hope for your sake it isn't also the end of di Vallesi.

  [leaves] 

• Simon Templar : Now listen, listen, George, listen. If the woman who had the dream was not di Vallesi's wife, then who was she?

  Detective George Caufield : There was no dream, you were conned!

  Simon Templar : Yes, obviously, George, but why?

  Detective George Caufield : If I could answer that, I wouldn't feel such a fool.

  Simon Templar : Just wait a minute, listen. Now she went to a lot of trouble for that. She had to book into the hotelroom, she had to, she had to wait until i was passing the door, then all that research on di Vallesi. A con does not mean hoax, George! I mean, Gunther is still a reality, we are still on the hook. The only difference is, now it's just a little bit more complicated and a lot more sinister.

• Dalby : I hire mercenaries, not murderers. I equip them with straight military issue, no more, no less. In short, I can't help you.

  Simon Templar : You'd better change your mind, Dalby, because if you don't I'll have you in the slammer so fast for illegal recruiting, you'd think you went there by jet.

• Simon Templar : So where do I go?

  Dalby : To hell, for all I care!

• Dalby : Man, you've changed. We never did see eye to eye, but... I had respect for you. That I'm fast losing. If you've sunk to contract work, we don't breathe the same air.

  Simon Templar : Just the name and the adress.

  Dalby : [sits down]  Harry Dillon. Runs a junk shop in Camden High Street. He's Numero Uno when it comes to servicing scum like you.

• Carmela : You are one of the names, of course. In certain circles.

  Simon Templar : Am I indeed, how very flattering. But if you know some of the circles where I'm known, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.