Monsieur Spade (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (2024)

Clive Owen: Sam Spade

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• Sam Spade : I thought we promised to only have this conversation when we're drunk.

  Chief of Police Patrice Michaud : I'm hungover. Does that count?

• Sam Spade : [Listening to the radio talking about JFK's commitment to put a man on the moon and return him safety by the end of the 1960s]  Man on the moon - what the hell for?

• Sam Spade : You speak perfect English.

  Gabrielle : I had a good teacher.

  Sam Spade : Another talent I lack.

  Gabrielle : Teaching?

  Sam Spade : Learning.

  Gabrielle : You just have to be taught by someone you want to listen to.

  Sam Spade : I'm all ears.

• Henri Thibaut : You were in the army, Mr. Spade?

  Sam Spade : No, I was a conscientious objector.

  Henri Thibaut : You don't believe in killing your fellow man?

  Sam Spade : Oh, I think there's plenty of men worth killing, aa well as plenty of wars worth fighting, I'd just rather choose myself.

• Chief of Police Patrice Michaud : Maurice is an excellent detective.

  Sam Spade : Maurice couldn't find water if he fell out of a boat.

• Sam Spade : Have a nice day.

  Audrey Saint-André : Drop dead.

  Sam Spade : I'm working on it.

• Sam Spade : When the sun goes cold.

• Sam Spade : Trouble comes ... read the book.

• Sam Spade : People come to you with their problems and you end up inheriting those problems. But you're good at fixing them, so the problems keep coming. Along with the money. In a very short while, the problems go from small to deadly. Turns out you're good at those too. Maybe too good. One day you wake up, you look in the mirror and you see someone you don't much like. No big deal. Just don't look in the mirror anymore. The money and the drink are a nice distraction until you finally rot from the inside all the way out. And no matter how much you drink, or how much money you make, you can never get away from your own stink.