MI-5 (2002–2011)
Peter Firth: Harry Pearce
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Quotes
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Jools Siviter : Bug your own office, do you, Harry?
Harry Pearce : Only for special occasions.
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Home Secretary : You know, back in my days as a student radical, our dreams were all about the glorious proletariat.
Harry Pearce : We've still got those dreams on file somewhere.
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Harry Pearce : Colin, tell me something uplifting.
Colin Wells : It's looking to be the driest Autumn on record.
Harry Pearce : Do you want to be taken out and shot?
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Harry Pearce : We're in a state of collective desperation here.
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Adam Carter : I was just shoring up an asset.
Harry Pearce : Oh, is that what they're calling it these days?
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Tom Quinn : So how did it go?
[Harry is silent]
Tom Quinn : Oh, that's right, I forgot. I'm a Civilian, now!
Harry Pearce : ...You are.
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Tom Quinn : [trying to talk someone out of getting himself shot by Special Forces] They want you to self-destruct!
Disillusioned Colonel : There's not a Soldier in Britain would shoot me!
Harry Pearce : Green light!
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Harry Pearce : Oh, shag.
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Harry Pearce : ...before he got religion - if world anarchy *is* a religion.
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CIA Man : So how much information do you have on this Shining Dawn?
Harry Pearce : About as much as you had on Al Qaeda when they were sunning themselves in Florida and learning how to fly.
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Harry Pearce : Because of what we are, we have to watch each other, as much as that pains us.
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Harry Pearce : [hunting a Rogue Agent] I didn't choose you for this mission because of your skills, but because you have absolutely nothing to lose.
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Harry Pearce : [agitated, thinks the World is ending and that he has contracted a disease via a biological weapon] All things that are of any worth, think on those things...
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Harry Pearce : Thanks for letting us have first bite at the rotten apple.
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Harry Pearce : [to a whole TV Studio Audience] Sign the Official Secrets Act.
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Ruth Evershed : [Civilian life] Things were simple and elegant!
Harry Pearce : You were made for more than that.
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Harry Pearce : If you kill him now, it would be gratuitous, because you know I won't tell you either way.
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Harry Pearce : [pentathol hallucinations] I must speak to the Home Secretary.
Interrogator : Ha ha! You're not going to speak to the Home Secretary. You're going to be sent off to live in the most terrible poverty we can bestow.
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Ruth Evershed : [EMP pulse stopped the missiles] The Hospital Generators kicked in, I shouldn't think more than 200 died.
Harry Pearce : Is it just about the numbers?
Ruth Evershed : I think sometimes it is.
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Harry Pearce : [Stares mournfully at a Computer Screen showing the Employment File of the Desk Agent who was killed at the end of her first Field Mission, then Deletes it]
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Harry Pearce : And her Father is an Archbishop!
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Harry Pearce : It was that or send you to Tring.
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Harry Pearce : [Danny's been shot] Where's Alice?
Ruth Evershed : She's under sedation.
Harry Pearce : Well let's make sure we're not under sedation.
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Harry Pearce : She thinks she knows.
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Harry Pearce : [Torture] No longer this we do not do.
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Harry Pearce : [Grisly False Flag against the IRA Story] And after all that, it didn't work!
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Harry Pearce : [Watching "The Weakest Link". Bored, knows all the answers]
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Harry Pearce : [Stuck in Traffic, listening to Terry Wogan]
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Dodgy MP : [TV] In the wake of these pop stars and their murder-suicide, I think it shows that there's nothing more useless than fame.
Harry Pearce : Adam! I need you for just one more thing...
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Harry Pearce : My Office?
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Harry Pearce : Sharecropper.
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Harry Pearce : [meets Russian Mob Wife in front of a Painting of the Execution of Lady Jane Grey]
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Harry Pearce : Escort her to a safehouse and tell her to await further instructions...
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Harry Pearce : [zipped into a Body Bag for transportation]
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Pop Star : I'll meet you at the Beginning of the World.
Malcolm Wynn-Jones : [Surveillance] What could that mean?
Harry Pearce : Anything.
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Harry Pearce : Not even All-Forgiving Sweden would take you in.
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Harry Pearce : Our people found this during the cleanup operation
[hands over the Religious Icon to the Dying Banker]
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Harry Pearce : Well, if he's going to put himself in Harm's Way...