Dangerous Knowledge (TV Series)

A Deadly Policy (1976)

Prunella Ransome: Laura

Quotes 

• [When Laura enters her cabin, Sanders and Martin point pistols at her face] 

  Sanders : I'm sorry. I didn't know it was you.

  Laura Marshall : He said that you were armed, but I didn't believe him!

• Roger Fane : Kirby?

  Laura Marshall : William Kirby.

  Martin : He's a professional. He knew what he was doing.

  Laura Marshall : He says he sells life insurance.

  Sanders : Must be a rough business.

• Laura Marshall : Well, what's behind it all? Can you tell me?

  Roger Fane : Well, as far as we know, the story he told you had substantial elements of the truth in it. Kirby may have acquired certain... shall we say... knowledge.

  Laura Marshall : What knowledge?

  Roger Fane : We're not sure and we don't know what he intends to do with it if it is so. We need to find out what he's got, if anything, and what his intentions are.

  Laura Marshall : Well, it all sounds terribly vague.

  Roger Fane : Yes, well, we deal in shadows and whispers. Hard to verify. Truth or lie, whose purpose it serves is the question.

• Laura Marshall : I teach.

  Bill Kirby : Ah, yes. A girls' private school - expensive, well-bred young ladies, hockey, well-chaperoned fortnightly dances with the sixth form boys of the nearest good public school.

  Laura Marshall : Have you ever had good wine poured over your head?

  Bill Kirby : Cheap plonk now and then.

• Laura Marshall : Someone in France told you something on which you hope to capitalize.

  Bill Kirby : Right.

  Laura Marshall : That could embrace anything between industrial espionage to blackmail.

  Bill Kirby : Do you know the best thing in the world? Doing good and getting well-paid for it. That's me.