- The Professor: Pull yourself together. Remorse is for the weak and weakness is the source of all evil on this Earth. There's a time coming - and it's gonna be sooner rather than later - when this will be understood by governments and individuals: that there can be no progress and no solutions until you make a rational decision to exterminate the weak.
- [last lines]
- The Professor: I myself have no future. But I am a force.
- The Professor: [stands and raises his glass] To the destruction of what is.
- [first title card]
- Title Card: In the 1880's -unlike today- London was a haven for political refugees of all nationalities. They were kept under constant surveillance by their embassies as well as by Scotland Yard. This was fertile soil for every kind of conspiracy and betrayal.
- Vladimir: You purport to be an agent provocateur. I am at a loss to think what you can have provoked, except for my patience.
- Vladimir: A bomb in the National Gallery would create some effect, but principally among artists and art critics, people of no consequence.
- Chief Inspector Heat: Makes me long for the days when I was dealing with good honest thieves. Least you know where you are with thieves. Bit of mutual respect.