Robin Hood (TV Series)

Let the Games Commence (2009)

Richard Armitage: Guy of Gisborne

Quotes 

• Allan A Dale : What the HELL?

  Much : ...you ready for that?

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : Seemed a rather apt way to dispatch such virulent supporters of the Couer De Lion. He hasn't been fed in days. I wanted him ready for you.

• Sir Guy of Gisborne : Welcome.

  Robin Hood : I like what you've done with the place, Gisborne.

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : I wasn't expecting your visit.

  Robin Hood : [Chuckles]  Well, I find that very hard to believe.

• Robin Hood : So... would you like to hear my demands?

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : [laughs]  Demands? Please. Demand away.

  Robin Hood : It's quite simple, really. Get out of my forest.

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : Yeah. That's a reasonable request. Let me think... kill Him.

• Isabella : Guy, what about your men? You can't just leave them!

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : They failed me.

  Isabella : Is that why you gave me to Squire Thornton? Did I fail you, too? Why won't you answer me? Don't you owe me that, at least?

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : I owe you nothing. I did what was best.

  Isabella : For who? You? You did nothing but to condemn me to hell and I demand to know why.

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : You're a foolish girl, and you do not understand the world.

  Isabella : No, I understand perfectly. I just want to hear it from you. Why did you give me away? I said, why did yo...

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : Because he offered a fair price for you, that's why. So... do you still require my protection?

  Isabella : ...you know I do.

• Sheriff of Nottingham : You're still alive. Things must've gone well at court. Well, that can't have gone that badly, not for Prince John to provide you with men, horses...

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : ...necessities.

  Sheriff of Nottingham : So Prince John sent you back to Nottingham with a mission, and yet nobody saw fit to tell me. The last time I checked, I was still the Sheriff.

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : The Prince is *still* waiting for his 1,000 crowns. His patience wears thin.

  Sheriff of Nottingham : As indeed, does mine, what's the mission?

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : He wants me to kill Robin Hood.

  Sheriff of Nottingham : Oh, I'm sure he does. But you've, uh, you've never managed it before, Gisborne, hmm? Although you did once have him at your sword point, and yet he still bested you.

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : Well, this time will be different. This time I will command with mission without incompetent, ill-conceived interference from others.

  Sheriff of Nottingham : No. You will fail, like you always failed before, and then you will come back and beg me for my patronage.

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : Not this time. The Prince has furnished me with a weapon that not even Hood can escape.

  Sheriff of Nottingham : What weapon?

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : Oh, I will not have need of you, ever again.

• Robin Hood : Looking well, Gisborne. For a dead man.

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : Be assured that your death will be real... not rumoured.

  Robin Hood : You must have made quite an impression on Prince John.

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : A better impression than you have.

  Much : What's he got in there?

  Robin Hood : How should I know? Just ready yourself.

  Much : How can I ready myself when I don't know what I have to be ready for?

  Kate : Just be ready for anything.

• Sheriff of Nottingham : Can I help you? Well. Might you hang your head in shame, Gisborne. You let him escape again and this - this! Is THIS what distracted you?

  [gestures to Isabella] 

  Sir Guy of Gisborne : ...this is my sister.

  Sheriff of Nottingham : Oh. Oh, I'm so sorry. You were busy playing happy families. Your level of incompetence never ever ceases to amaze me, Gisborne. Every time I think you've plumbed a new depth, along you come and surprise me all over again. Well, maybe now prince John will remember why he put ME in command!