A07 Close Quarters

Writer: Brian Clemens
Director: William Brayne
Original Broadcast: UK: 10.02.1978
Episode Availability: DVD: AU UK Video: UK
Novelisation: The Professionals 3: Stake Out by Ken Blake [0 7221 5252 3]

Cast:
CI5 Agent William Bodie · Lewis Collins
CI5 Controller George Cowley · Gordon Jackson
CI5 Agent Raymond Doyle · Martin Shaw

Guest Cast:
Franz Myer · Clive Arrindell
Tony Kristo · David Bradley
Betty · Bridget Brice
CI5 Agent Jax · Joseph Charles
Doctor · Rowland Davies
Julia · Gabrielle Drake
Hans Russeheim · Barney James
Inge Helmut · Madlena Nedeva
Sara · Hildegard Neil
Vicar Edward Turnbull · Allan Surtees

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An injured Bodie captures the leader of a terrorist group but finds himself and his girlfriend trapped by the rest of the gang and unable to alert his colleagues.

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Julia: "How's the hand?"
Bodie: "Terrible. But the eyes are having a great time."

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Franz Myer: "You English are all insane."

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Cowley: "Could they travel twenty miles?" [Wondering how far away Bodie could have gotten]
Doyle: "Thirty the way Bodie drives."

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Cowley: "You've never told me about Bodie. I made you a team, what, two years ago?"
Doyle: "Two years and three months."
Cowley: "That's long enough."
Doyle: "Long enough for what?"
Cowley: "For him to get up your nose. Irritate you."
Doyle: "Oh, he does that all right. Every day he does that."
Cowley: "Chalk and cheese, eh?"
Doyle: "Yeah."
Cowley: "Ah, it's worked well, though."
Doyle: "Yeah, I've watched his back, he's watched mine, we're both still alive. At least, this morning we were both still alive."
Cowley: "Aye. Bodie gets up my nose, too, and so do you. But I want you both to stay alive."

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[Julia asks Bodie asked why he should go on risking their lives]
Bodie: "I don't know why. Because I hate his kind. Because I hate to lose. I don't know why... Because I say so."
Julia: "And what you say goes?"
Bodie: "Yeah. So long as I'm holding this gun."

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Julia: "Ironic, isn't it? Here we are, waiting to die because you, Bodie, don't like to lose."
Bodie: "I'm doing this to protect you, people like you."
Julia: "You live by violence — just like Myer."
Bodie: "Yes, well, you fight fire with fire in this job.. ."
Julia: "And now we're all going to die violently. You're crazy! Crazy!"

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Bodie: [to Myer] "Not so very different, hey? She isn't even on the same planet as you."

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Cowley: "You did very well, Bodie."
Bodie: "Thank you, sir."
Cowley: "But the damage to the side window of my car, that will have to be deducted, of course."
Bodie: "Of course, sir."
Cowley: "From my pay." [Doyle grins] "Doyle, you are grinning?"
Doyle: "No, it's just a nervous tic, sir."