Sharpe's Mission
1996 (TV)
Wellington: I'd be obliged if you'd show that fellow Shellington around the camp. I can't spare another officer. Sharpe: Yes sir. Wellington: Oh, and Sharpe, you better brace yourself. He's a poet. Sharpe: Poet, sir? My wife will be delighted. Wellington: Really? Personally I'd rather call for the surgeon and have him cut off my goddamn foot with a saw.
(Shellington has passed out from seeing the dead bodies.) Ross: What are we going to do with him, Sharpe? Sharpe: Send him home, sir. Ross: Home? He'll need an escort. Sharpe: Send two of Brand's men back with him. They know the terrain. This is a perfect excuse for bringing Brand back. Ross: What if he doesn't want to go back to Wellington's camp? Sharpe: Oh, he'll want to, sir. Shellington: (coming around) Where am I? Sharpe (to Ross) : He'll want to try to seduce my wife.
Jane: Why would you follow him to the death? Harris: Loyalty! We're loyal to him and he's loyal to us. In life and in death. We trust him with our lives and he trusts us with his life. Jane: And with his wife. He trusts you with his wife.
(Harris is confined to camp pending a murder inquiry.) Sharpe: Harris, until this matter is resolved, you're my responsibility. Now while I'm on this mission, you will act as manservant to my wife. Harris: You're letting a suspected murderer look after your wife, sir? Sharpe: Harris, I'm posting you to my household as I would post you to a position on a battlefield. Harris: (saluting and smiling) Yes, sir!
(Brand is found guilty of six murders. After being goaded by Brand, Sharpe hits him in the chest and he falls back into a deep well to his death.) Ross: Did you see that, Harper? Harper: Who me, sir? No, I saw nothing, sir. Ross: Did you see what happened to Col Brand? Harper: Oh, he's a funny fish, sir. I just saw him jump head-long into the wishing well. Why do you think he'd want to do something like that, sir? Ross: Thank you, Harper.