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#16.The Fiddlesticks Affair

IK: Into the valley of Thrush rode the six hundred.

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IK: Firstly we shall need a woman.

NS: Well I'll tell you, I'll improvise something. (At Kuryakin's look) My assignment, senior officer by two years.

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IK: Hello lovely lady. It's nifty making new friends in strange places, don't you think?

NS: With your permission Miss? I think it would be rather nifty if you took your evening and your health and your breath particularly elsewhere.

IK: I beg your pardon.

NS: Mm huh. Dismissed.

IK: It's been nifty.

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Rudolf: But on my honour.

IK: Were you truly a gentleman Mr Rudolf, as I once was, you'd realise that no man calls upon his honour so much as he who lacks it.

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IK: Lipstick and there's no need to ask how you faired with the young lady, especially after that nauseating performance of mine.

NS: Ah now bitterness is a terrible thing Illya. I mean after all you did make rather a bad impression on Susan you know.

IK: Susan is a nice name.

NS: It's so terribly crude of you Illya, I mean drinking and carrying on like that. I was actually rather embarrassed for you.

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Susan: It's that drunkard. How dare you come barging in to somebody else's …

NS: No, no this is Illya Kuryakin and he's not a drunkard as a matter of fact he doesn't even smoke and he only offends young ladies in the line of duty.

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IK: And if you don't get through this area and into the vault by 12:03 and I start drilling?

NS: Well if you touch the wall before I throw the switch, I will hear a very loud noise and you will be scattered all over the Caribbean.

IK: Well a good agent should be in many places at once.