Five Red Herrings (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.4 (1975)

Ian Carmichael: Lord Peter Wimsey

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Quotes 

• Henry Strachan : [Angrily]  I'll tell you this, Wimsey, one of these days you'll go too far, and somebody will murder you!

  Lord Peter Wimsey : [Nonplused]  Do you know, I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised.

• [last lines] 

  Bunter : How does your lordship foresee the outcome?

  Lord Peter Wimsey : "Gentlemen of the Jury, you have heard evidence of the character of the deceased, of his habitual drunkenness and savage temper. You have heard how, on the day of his death, he drove a golf ball at almost point-blank range at the witness Jock Graham - an action which might well have had fatal consequences. You have heard how, in the presence of the Club Committee, he threatened the witnesses Strachan and Gowan with actual bodily harm if they chanced to cross his path again, and of how, on that same evening, he entered into a violent argument with the witness Michael Waters and threw whisky in his face, and fought him in the bar. And also of the far more monstrous attack on the person of Matthew Gowan - an act of unspeakable barbarity which must stir in every one of us the deepest revulsion - not to mention his most questionable advances toward the wife of the witness Hugh Farren. In the light of what you have heard, is there a single one of you who would dare to return a verdict of "guilty" against the accused, John Ferguson? I say with absolute confidence that there is not!" And of course they won't. It'll be self defense or justifiable homicide.

  Bunter : I'm delighted to hear it, my lord.

  Lord Peter Wimsey : So am I, Bunter. Ferguson's a good egg. It was his misfortune to suffer from a rotten neighbor!

• Lord Peter Wimsey : [Sneaks up on Farran, who has been on the run for several days earning money by doing artwork]  A bit extravagant with the Flake White, aren't we?

  Hugh Farren : Wimsey! By all that's holy! How the devil did you find me?

  Lord Peter Wimsey : Well, if you will go about the countryside leaving a trail of newly-painted pub signs behind you, it ain't exactly difficult.

• Hugh Farren : [Discussing the circumstances of his disappearance]  Well, I can't possibly make you understand.

  Lord Peter Wimsey : You're not doin' badly at all.

  Hugh Farren : Ah, but you're rich, Wimsey. There's nothing to stop you doing exactly what you want. Why do you take the trouble to be respectable?

  Lord Peter Wimsey : Precisely because there's nothin' to stop me doin' exactly as I want. I get my fun out of it.

  Hugh Farren : I know you do. It's odd. You create an illusion of liberty. Is it the money or just... just being unmarried?