Alan Badel credited as playing...
Beshraavi
- Beshraavi: [Offering Pollock a small platter of dried dates] Take a date, Mr. Pollock, as a gesture of friendship. I'm a very Arabian Arab, I'm afraid.
- David Pollock: [Takes a date, then offers one to the falcon] Friends?
- Beshraavi: Flesh, Mr. Pollock. Hassan eats only flesh.
- David Pollock: I thought he looked at it wistfully.
- Beshraavi: It must have been your fingers.
- Beshraavi: Those slippers are absolutely beautiful, my darling. Are you wearing them for my benefit?
- Yasmin Azir: Of course, Nejim. Mr. Pollock does not have your exotic refinements. He prefers nighties.
- David Pollock: She said it, I didn't.
- Beshraavi: Mr. Pollock, some Bedouins are in the habit of saying to their guests, "All that I possess is yours"... I am not one of them.
- Beshraavi: Extraordinary sensation. Perhaps it was the way he looked at you?
- Yasmin Azir: Who?
- Beshraavi: Pollock!
- Yasmin Azir: Darling, if you start getting jealous over everyone who looks at me, it will do terrible things to your blood pressure. I don't think you have to worry about college professors.
- Beshraavi: Why not?
- Yasmin Azir: They're only interested in work.
- Beshraavi: They're the most dangerous kind, my love. They're such expert peekers.
- Yasmin Azir: Don't worry. If I were standing stark naked in front of Mr. Pollock, he'd probably yawn.
- Beshraavi: Oh - and if I don't hear from you by noon tomorrow - try and think of some remote corner of the world where I won't find you. I don't think you can - but try.
- Beshraavi: Before you came home, I received word that... Mr. Pollock had arrived safely in his rooms at Oxford.
- Yasmin Azir: A hearty race, the Americans.
- Beshraavi: I was also told that he was riding a bicycle... and singing a very strange song.
- Yasmin Azir: A hearty and fun-loving race.
- Beshraavi: You mustn't mind Hassan, Mr. Pollock.
- David Pollock: 'Hassan'?
- Beshraavi: He's a peregrine falcon. I've named him Hassan Jena after our beloved prime minister. They share so many sterling qualities. A sharp eye, a fierce dedication, and *very* sharp claws. Hassan won't harm you, Mr. Pollock, if you don't separate him from his master. He is excessively loyal.
- David Pollock: You keep him well fed, I trust.
- Beshraavi: Of course. Nobody's *that* loyal.
- Beshraavi: People who lock doors generally have things to hide.
- Yasmin Azir: Would you care to search me?
- Beshraavi: Will I find your thoughts?
- Beshraavi: Mr. Pollock, very good of you to reconsider my proposal.
- David Pollock: I always try my best to cooperate with the very rich, Mr. Beshraavi.
- Beshraavi: What do you suppose happened to Mustafa? He hasn't come back yet.
- Yasmin Azir: Dead, I'm afraid.
- Beshraavi: And servants so hard to come by these days...
- Yasmin Azir: I saw several possible replacements at the zoo.
- Yasmin Azir: That really is extraordinary. Jealous? You?
- Beshraavi: I'm jealous of thoughts, Yasmin. I'm jealous of everything I can't see or hear.
- Beshraavi: Your shower's still running.
- Yasmin Azir: I'll turn it off.
- Beshraavi: No. Take your shower.
- Yasmin Azir: Maybe I won't tonight. I'm so sleepy.
- Beshraavi: In that case, please do. I want you wide awake.
- Beshraavi: Your shower must have been quite - stimulating.
- Yasmin Azir: It was.
- Beshraavi: But, how do you suppose he happened to be in there, my pet?
- Yasmin Azir: I neglected to ask him. All I know is he was there, waiting for me.
- Yasmin Azir: Oh, I am exhausted.
- Beshraavi: Of course you are, my poor darling. Let me give you a massage.
- Yasmin Azir: How can you continue being so good to me?
- Beshraavi: You must have been very convincing.
- Yasmin Azir: It's a feminine talent.
- Beshraavi: What a waste not to exploit it.
