Michael Cochrane credited as playing...
Simmerson
- General Sir Henry Simmerson: You should be wary of this one, McRae. He thinks because Wellington raised him up from the sewer that it somehow makes him a gentleman. Don't know your place, do you Sharpie?
- Richard Sharpe: Maybe not, but I know how to stand before a French column. I know how to face fire without soiling my breeches and turning tail.
- General Sir Henry Simmerson: Sharpe! I see time has done nothing to improve a want of etiquette in you. Still the same, whore-mongering, gutter trash of memory!
- Richard Sharpe: Aye, and you're still the same cruel, flogging bastard!
- General Sir Henry Simmerson: Cruel, sir? I calls it discipline!
- General Sir Henry Simmerson: [staring at the head sent by Khande Rao] They killed with a nail, McRae. A nail! Driven into his *skull!*
- Patrick Harper: He was, general, but not by any hammer. This is the work of jettis. Professional strongmen: killing people in interesting ways is part of their remit.
- Simmerson: The second rule of war, Sharpe, which you'd know if you'd ever learned anything beyond insolence towards your superiors, is: never reinforce failure!
- Sharpe: Oh, i know that rule. Though judging by that birchet on your shoulder, it seems *this* army is resolved to prove you its living exception!
- Sharpe: [trying to get official permission to leave on a special mission] If Captain Singh and his Lancers help me, Mr. Harper and I should prove sufficient to the job.
- Simmerson: You and Harper, eh? - I don't mind if you do die, Sharpe. It's long past your time, ain't it?
- Sharpe: If that's permission...
- Simmerson: Oh, by all means. Go and die, Sharpe!
- General Sir Henry Simmerson: For a horse dealer, Mr. Harper, you seem remarkably well informed!
- Patrick Harper: Well sir you see, a horse dealer picks up more round and about, than just shit on his boots, sir.
- General Sir Henry Simmerson: [thinking about his monologue] What do you say, Stokes? Which suits better? Glinting or glimmering?
- Stokes: [is hard of hearing, so does not hear Simmerson at first]
- General Sir Henry Simmerson: Stokes!
- Stokes: Sir?
- General Sir Henry Simmerson: Glinting or glimmering?
- Stokes: Uh...as you have it, sir. As you have it.
- General Sir Henry Simmerson: Yes, yes, I think so too...glinting. So did I, so did I...