The Avengers (TV Series)

The Positive Negative Man (1967)

Diana Rigg: Emma Peel

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• Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : I'm Cynthia Wentworth-Howe, Top Hush Secretary to the Minister.

  John Steed : How do you do?

  Emma Peel : Top Hush?

  Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : We assistants come in four grades: 'Confidential', 'Secret', 'Most Secret' and 'Top Hush'.

  John Steed : Eh, you've reached the top of your profession, then?

  Cynthia Wentworth-Howe : Not quite. My ultimate ambition is to achieve the special category of 'Button Lip', the pinnacle of secrecy. Not a single syllable passed on before being vetted, examined, coded and cleared.

• John Steed : What was all that about? You didn't trip, we don't have a dinner engagement, and to plumb the depths of utter banality with 'I don't usually fall for strangers'.

  Emma Peel : It was a corny situation calling for corny measures.

• John Steed : You don't happen to be carrying around a large brandy, do you?

  Emma Peel : No, I'm traveling light.

• Peter Haworth : My pectorals may leave much to be desired, Mrs. Peel, but I'm the most dynamic man you are ever likely to meet. Hear that? Power. Broadcast power. A life force flowing into me, fed by radio waves, making me the most powerful man on earth, a king, omnipotent!

  Emma Peel : Careful you don't blow a fuse.