Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Company (1994)

Pete Postlethwaite: Sgt. Obadiah Hakeswill

Quotes 

• [Hakeswill tries to rape Teresa] 

  Hakeswill : Now open your legs ever so wide, and lie still as a dead'un!

• Hakeswill : What's to happen is, you will become proper soldiers. And draw tunics of the red bright light company of the South Essex, and you will hand in your precious rifle guns and draw proper muskets to go along with being proper dressed. Fit for soldiers at last!

  [speaks into his hat] 

  Hakeswill : Never thought you'd see it, did you, Mother?

  [speaks to men] 

  Hakeswill : You hate me, don't you? Well, I hate you.

  [speaks into his hat again] 

  Hakeswill : I do, I do, I do. I hates 'em!

  [rounds on men] 

  Hakeswill : Who said that? I heard that. Mad? Oh, no, I ain't mad. Not so's I don't know.

• Richard Sharpe : That rifle's loaded and rammed, Sergeant.

  Hakeswill : Sir?

  Richard Sharpe : Did you know, Sergeant?

  Hakeswill : Me, sir? No, sir, never, sir!

  Richard Sharpe : This yours, Sergeant?

  Hakeswill : No, sir. Not me, sir. Him, sir. Private 'Arper, sir!

  Richard Sharpe : Well how many more are loaded?

  [puts rifles under Hakeswill's chin, pulls trigger, nothing happens] 

  Richard Sharpe : Harris!

  [throws him the rifle] 

  Richard Sharpe : Cooper! Hagman! Perkins!

  [threatens Hakeswill with Harper's volley gun] 

  Richard Sharpe : They say you can't be killed, Sergeant Hakeswill. It is known. 'Come with me, my lads, for I cannot die. I'm going to live for ever, for they tried to hang me once but did... not... do it.' I could almost believe it. Except in the case of someone you tried to kill, Sergeant Hakeswill... and did... not... do it. I wonder who that might be, Sergeant. You're a dead man, Obadiah. BANG!

• Richard Sharpe : Sgt. Hakeswill...

  Hakeswill : Permission to speak, sir!

  [pause] 

  Hakeswill : I've nothing to say, sir.

  [drops voice] 

  Hakeswill : Oh my word, what a surprise... Sharpie.

  Richard Sharpe : You are come to me?

  Hakeswill : Ever such a long way. I was despairing.

  Richard Sharpe : LEFT FACE!

  [Hakeswill obeys automatically] 

  Richard Sharpe : QUICK MARCH!

  [Hakeswill walks forward until he is facing the wall. Sharpe grabs his head and mashes his face into the wall] 

  Richard Sharpe : You lay a finger on any of my men, Sgt., and I'll bloody kill you.

• Hakeswill : [Watching Cooper dig in a muddy trench]  Dig! You don't dig, you don't eat!

  Rifleman Cooper : [Notices Sharpe]  Officer coming, Sarn't.

  Hakeswill : That ain't an officer I know Mr. Leftenant Sharpe

  [holds his hands according to speech] 

  Hakeswill : when me and Sharpe was like that! And that is me on top!

  Rifleman Cooper : [Sarcastic]  Oh yes, oh yes...

• Hakeswill : Come to show these lazy bastards how it's done, sir?

• Hakeswill : Company, atten-shun! Come to show these lazy bastards how it's done, sir?

  [Sharpe throws up a salute, "accidentally" knocking Hakeswill into the trench with his elbow] 

  Richard Sharpe : Carry on, Sergeant.