Casey Brown Quotes in Candleshoe (1977)

[last lines]

Casey Brown: What if your real granddaughter comes back?

Lady St. Edmund: Perhaps she has.

Lady St. Edmund: So, after you left, we examined the fireplace. There was a loose stone...

Casey Brown: You're kiddin'?

Lady St. Edmund: And there was something hidden in the canopy behind it.

[takes out a small, shiny box from behind her back]

Lady St. Edmund: Do you recognize this?

Casey Brown: No.

Lady St. Edmund: Look closer, dear. Are you sure you've never seen it? It's very important!

Casey Brown: No. No. Although...

[begins to whistle the first notes of a tune, then opens the box, which turns out to be a music box that completes the melody]

Casey Brown: Uh, I don't understand...

Lady St. Edmund: Oh, my dear. Oh, my dear!... Welcome to Candleshoe!

[embraces Casey, crying]

Casey Brown: You can peel and core the apples Queenie. I'm busy.

Casey Brown: [Casey has told everyone at Candleshoe the real reason for her arrival and what she has discovered thus far. They are all at the graveyard looking at the headstone] ... And this was the last clue. He followed the Eclipse for riches and fame...

Priory: And if ye would prosper, do ye the same. What does it mean?

Lady St. Edmund: Why, it's very simple. The Eclipse was a ship. Captain Joshua's ship. There's a picture of it in the house, of Captain Joshua accepting the surrender of a Spanish vessel on the Spanish main. Dear Lord, well, that's the clue! Come on everyone! It's hanging in the hall!

Priory: Um, my Lady!

Lady St. Edmund: [remembers] It's not hanging in the hall...

Lady St. Edmund: [Lady St. Edmund has called an emergency meeting with Mr. Thresher] You sold it, Mr. Thresher, you sold my painting?

Mr. Thresher: Well, my lady, it was my painting. You sold to me, that is, well, Mr. Priory sold it to me, that is...

Priory: Mr. Thresher, we certaintly have no quams with the sale, but we must get a look at it. So if you would, please tell us who you sold it to,and where is it now?

Mr. Thresher: Ah, I sold it to an elderly woman only yesterday. She said, that Captain Joshua reminded her of her father...

Lady St. Edmund: Another pirate, no doubt.

Mr. Thresher: I packaged it up, myself. It's leaving on the 12:20 for London!

Priory: 12:20. Thank you Mr. Thresher. Come along, everyone. We must get to the station!

Casey Brown: But, it's 12:15 now!

Priory: That train never leaves on time, if we hurry we should just make it.

Casey Brown: [Jenkins has caught Casey as she is trying to flee the apartment] Let go of me! I'm a minor!

[held by the arm, Casey is flung back into the apartment]

Casey Brown: You creeps! You lousy creeps! Sold me out to the cops, huh?

Mrs. McCress: Shut up!

[to Jenkins]

Mrs. McCress: Well, this is her!

Casey Brown: [Casey is again grabbed by Jenkins, who examines her shoulderblade and forehead, looking at the scars. Satisfied that Casey is the one he is looking for, he tosses a large envelope of money on the table. Mr. McCress greedily opens the envelope and begins counting]

Mrs. McCress: [hands a suitcase to Jenkins] Here's the rest of her stuff.

Lady St. Edmund: I don't suppose your experience with family life has been a happy one.

Casey Brown: What family life? Tell ya, the only thing i remember about family life is nothing. Zero. One foster dump to another. I mean who really cares about a kid you take in just for the welfare money and the food stamps? I mean who really cares? It's a racket, just like anything else. The whole world's a racket. First thing i ever learned. you get up out of bed in the morning with your dukes up. You got 'em up, first punch is yours.

Lady St. Edmund: I see.

Casey Brown: Yeah, well, maybe you do and maybe you don't.

Lady St. Edmund: But you can't go through life alone.

Casey Brown: I ain't alone. I got me. Listen, if you don't hand it out you don't have to worry about not getting it back.

Casey Brown: I'm not deprived; I'm delinquent. There's a difference, you know.

Casey Brown: [far too posh] Teddy and Piggywig!

Casey Brown: For the sunrise student, there is treasure among books.

Casey Brown: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. That's it! I found the clue.

Lady St. Edmund: Priory!

Lady St. Edmund: My Lady?

Casey Brown: Gagh!

[puts down the spoon]

Harry Bundage: Eat it!

Casey Brown: I can't! I've had enough! Uh...

[looks for a place to dump the rice pudding out]

Lady St. Edmund: Strawberries, shortbread, rice pudding? I must say, that was very unscrupulous of you, Priory.

Priory: Quite right, My Lady. Most unscrupulous.

Lady St. Edmund: We'll just let things take their course, shall we, Priory?

Priory: [bows] Very good.

Peter: [rushes into the lake to break up the fight between Anna, Casey and Cluny] Are you all right?

Casey Brown: Yeah. Yeah, I'm OK... I'm fine!

[holds her eye and trods out of the lake]

Peter: [holds Cluny and Anna each by the arm] You two ought to be ashamed of yourselves! Two against one!

Bobby: [on the shore] Yes! And what will Grandmother say when she finds out?

Casey Brown: [stands in front of the mirror after she has showered. She wipes the fog off the glass. The bathroom door behind her opens and Jenkins and Bundage walk in] Don't nobody knock around this place?

[both men stare at Casey]

Casey Brown: Who's this joker?

Harry Bundage: [walks up to Casey, roughly looks at her scars on her forehead and shoulderblade]

Jenkins: The markings are just the way you described them!

Harry Bundage: Yes!

[turns back to Casey]

Harry Bundage: Where did you get those scars?

Casey Brown: [sarcastically] Rudolph Valentino beat me 'cuz I wouldn't marry 'em!

Harry Bundage: [slaps Casey across the face] That's the last time you sass me! Now! Where did those scars come from?

Casey Brown: I don't remember.

[Harry raises his hand to slap Casey again, Casey flinches]

Harry Bundage: Just keep on, not remembering!

[throws a box on the table next to the sink]

Harry Bundage: Put those on!

[turns to Jenkins]

Harry Bundage: Excellent work, Mr. Jenkins! I'm very pleased!

Jenkins: Good, good! Will there be anything else, Mr. Bundage?

Harry Bundage: No, no.

Casey Brown: [has opened the box and holds up the garment] A dress?

Harry Bundage: Put it on.

Cluny: [Casey has just come out of the closet after talking privately with Bundage] Who were you telephoning?

Casey Brown: My stock broker. I told him to order 100 pounds of Alakazam Salt and Pepper.

Cluny: Listen, you're up to something.

[steps closer]

Cluny: I want to know what it is.

Casey Brown: Na, you listen. If you don't keep your snout out of my business,

[squints and smiles]

Casey Brown: your smeller will wind up where your ears 'otta be.

Peter: It's engaged!

Casey Brown: What?

Peter: Busy!

Casey Brown: You're a hustler.

Harry Bundage: A what?

Casey Brown: A hustler. A con man. I can smell 'em a mile away.

Harry Bundage: You take care your smeller don't end up where your ears oughta be!

Casey Brown: [Knock on the door] Yeah, who is it? Come on in.

Bobby: It's me. You awake?

Casey Brown: Yeah, I think I am. How come you're not in bed?

Bobby: I've got something for you.

Casey Brown: What's that?

Bobby: Garlic.

Casey Brown: Garlic?

Bobby: Garlic. Keeps ghosts away.

Casey Brown: Garlic keeps everyone away.

Priory: Now Cluny you've already met.

Casey Brown: Yeah, right, I met Cluny.

Priory: Over here, struggling with the churn, is Peter.

Casey Brown: Hi.

Peter: Hello, welcome to Candleshoe.

Priory: This is Anna.

Bobby: [From above] Hey, somebody catch!

[He tosses a jar. Casey catches it]

Peter: Hey, well held!

Priory: [Bobby slides down the column into the kitchen] The acrobatic member of the family is Bobby.

Lady St. Edmund: I don't mind in the least that you lied to me when you first came to Candleshoe. But I would be very hurt if you lied to me now. Do you really want to go back to Los Angeles?

Casey Brown: [Casey begins to cry and is embarassed] I've never cried in my life.

Lady St. Edmund: Then I think it's time that you did. Come on, my dear. We're going home.

[they leave the train station together]