![]() | Season 4 / Episode 3: - Episode 3 Golly Mackenzie: Well, if you must stomp on people's feet, then try a lower heel or wellies or something. |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 3: - Episode 3 Irene Stuart: What is that thing anyway? Duncan McKay: This? It's a tracking device. Irene Stuart: Great. Could it track down the socks the washing machine has eaten? |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 3: - Episode 3 Irene Stuart: I'm sure he's very nice, he just seems a bit... tweedy, that's all. Duncan McKay: Tweedy? Irene Stuart: You know, countryfied. Like he shaves with broken glass and keeps a ferret in his sporran. Duncan McKay: That's not a ferret in his sporran, he's just pleased to see you. |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 3: - Episode 3 Molly MacDonald: It's a buzz of course to have a flutter on the gee gees. Louis Grimshaw: Only when you win, old girl. I would have wasted less dosh if I'd bought a race horse and shot it. |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 3: - Episode 3 Duncan McKay: [about Golly's date with Irene] So how was it? Golly Mackenzie: Brilliant. You'll have to speak up though, my ears are ringing. Duncan McKay: I was getting worried. Golly Mackenzie: We went clubbing. Duncan McKay: Clubbing? Golly Mackenzie: Yeah, those baby seals really take it out of you. |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 3: - Episode 3 Charlie: This is a turbo charged XR3I, pal. Golly Mackenzie: Son, you can't even spell XR3I. |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 2: - Episode 2 Archie MacDonald: Mother, Kilwillie was one of Father's best friends. Molly MacDonald: No dear, they played golf together. That is quite different. |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 2: - Episode 2 Esme: Is it true you feed rabbits to the wolves? Golly Mackenzie: Yup. Archie couldn't find any wolves that were vegetarian. |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 2: - Episode 2 Duncan McKay: What are you doing tonight? Golly Mackenzie: You mean after I've thrown your computer game into the loch? Duncan McKay: Does that keep you awake? Golly Mackenzie: No, you playing on it keeps me awake. |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 2: - Episode 2 Duncan McKay: I've got to go and check the wolves before I go to bed. Irene Stuart: Keep the wolf from the door, eh? Duncan McKay: No, they don't have a door. It's like a hole in the ground. Irene Stuart: Do you want a hand? Duncan McKay: No it's kind of muddy up there. Irene Stuart: I don't mind. Where do they sleep? Duncan McKay: In a den. Well, the mother will be under the ground with her cub just now. But the really interesting thing is the father wolf goes out to eat and then he comes back to the burrow and regurgitates the food so they can have some. Irene Stuart: That's so romantic. Duncan McKay: Is it? Irene Stuart: You, me, moonlight and the smell of wolf vomit. What more can a girl want? |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 1: - Episode 1 Lexie McTavish: Are you sure you should be cuddling the housekeeper, your lairdship? |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 1: - Episode 1 Kilwillie: I'll be around first thing in the morning. Shall we say, umm... 11.30? |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 1: - Episode 1 Golly Mackenzie: [Talking about Duncan being Head Keeper to the wolves] You don't think being scared to death of the creatures just a wee bit of a disadvantage? Duncan McKay: I'm not scared. I'm in the process of forming a relationship based on mutual respect. Golly Mackenzie: Well, they haven't eaten you yet. |
![]() | Season 4 / Episode 1: - Episode 1 Irene Stuart: Ah, the hunter home from the hill. Lexie McTavish: Where are they? Golly Mackenzie: I'm afraid there were no rabbits to be had. Lexie McTavish: Golly, the estate's overrun. I mean, they breed like... like rabbits. |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 11: - Episode Eleven Archie MacDonald: [hanging up a portrait of Hector on the wall] Is he straight? Molly MacDonald: As much as he ever was. |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 11: - Episode Eleven Golly: [waiting for Lexie to turn up at the wedding] Let's face it Archie, she always has had a tendency to overcook things. |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 11: - Episode Eleven McGregor: The late Mr. MacDonald made a number of wills. In the latest he wrote out the bequests on separate sheets in his own hand, which he was keen for you to read yourselves. Golly: I'll, uh..."To my liege man Golly, as true a man as I've ever known, I leave what remains of my once-mighty collection of single malt whiskeys, in the hope that he will toast our association every Saint Andrew's Day." That I will, Hector. Duncan: "To my assistant gillie and court jester Duncan, I leave the entire contents of my wardrobe in the hope that this may encourage him to wear something other than that filthy ki...kilt and moth-eaten cardigan he insists on donning every day." It's not a cardy; it's a fleece. I paid eight quid for that. Lexie: "To estimable Alexandra, I bequeath a sufficient sum for a new set of saucepans, the remainder to be spent on garments that expose her even more estimable midriff." Molly: "To my darling wife, best friend and good companion Molly, I bequeath the rest of my goods and effects as well as my ridiculously puny personal holdings in the hope thay they will help her become a very merry widow." |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 11: - Episode Eleven Archie: Look, Lex, you don't have to decide now. Just come with me. Come home. Lexie: [Lexie hands Archie her bus ticket] Can you not see? I got a return ticket. [she laughs and they hug] Kilwillie: [hugging Molly] Well done, well done. Duncan: [as the car drives away, leaving him behind] Hey! Hoy! |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 11: - Episode Eleven Golly: [finding Jo and Killwillie drunk] So much for my inheritance, Hector. |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 11: - Episode Eleven Pamela Morton: This is lovely, Lex. It reminds me so much of my own wedding. Lexie: Which one? |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 10: - Episode Ten Hector MacDonald: [Killwillie doubts the thing Hector has deemed a great pike may not be a fish] What do you think pulled me into the water - a missing Soviet submarine? Well, come on. Any bright ideas? Kilwillie: I'm directing every particle of brain-power at the problem. Hector MacDonald: Hm, very reassuring. |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 10: - Episode Ten Archie MacDonald: Well, I've been thinking. Lexie: Arch, I wish you wouldn't do that! |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 10: - Episode Ten Hector MacDonald: I'm going fishing. Jolyon: What a capital idea. Hector MacDonald: [to the dog] Come on, Useless. Duncan: [running up] Coming... Hector MacDonald: Not y... Oh, forget it. |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 10: - Episode Ten Golly Mackenzie: [runs up with Duncan] Archie, son... Duncan: Your dad. It's your dad, Archie. Archie MacDonald: [he and Lexie grin] What's the old fool done now? Kilwillie: [inside, calling up toward where she paints] Molly! Molly! Molly MacDonald: Killwillie? What do you want? |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 10: - Episode Ten Hector MacDonald: [to his new dog] And... fetch! Hector MacDonald: I'll explain it once more. Now, when I throw the ball - see the ball, see, made of rubber, round, all right, that's a ball - when I throw it over there, you run after it, pick it up, bring it back to me. All right? Quite simple. And... fetch! Hector MacDonald: You see, fetching - is what dogs *do*. It's a service performed by, uh, canus familiarus, that's the Latin for dog. It's what you do, uh, what all of us have done ever since we lived in caves together, you don't have to think about it, don't think about, just *do* it. Do it. And - fetch! Hector MacDonald: I can see you're going to be trouble. |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 10: - Episode Ten Hector MacDonald: [muffled, with the ball in his mouth as he crawls forth] Now, like this, like that, let's go through it once more, and then you drop it, all right. Hector MacDonald: All right? Did you *get* that? Molly MacDonald: [as he puts it back in his mouth and the dog whimpers as she calls from just outside the house] Hector - come inside, Archie's some sort of announcement to make. Hector MacDonald: [muffled once more] In a minute!... Now watch, I'm ready, like that, all right, and you drop it Hector MacDonald: like that. Hector MacDonald: Well, at least I've solved the problem of what to call you. Come on, then - Useless. |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 10: - Episode Ten Hector MacDonald: Archie, I hope this is not going to take *too* long. Golly Mackenzie: I've got a map to pick up from the library, Archie. Molly MacDonald: Archie, darling, I promised to give a talk for the Golf Club ladies on a new approach to sandwich design. Hector MacDonald: And I'm going fishing with Useless. Duncan: And I have something really important to do, as well... It's quite important. Archie MacDonald: [shares an amused glance with Lexie] Well, shouldn't take too long, should they? Just seven words. Lexie: Eight. Archie MacDonald: [as a horn sounds outside] The thing is... Molly MacDonald: [goes to look out the window] It can't be. Can it? It is! It's Jo! It's Jo! Hector MacDonald: Hell. Duncan: [following them and Golly toward the doorway] Will you excuse me, it's just that there's something more interesting happening, outside. Archie MacDonald: ...Lexie and I are going to get married. Yeah, you're right, it *is* eight words. |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 10: - Episode Ten Hector MacDonald: Molly, I refuse to be insulted in the hallway of my own house! Molly MacDonald: Would you rather be insulted in the hallway of someone else's house? That can easily be arranged! |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 10: - Episode Ten Kilwillie: Everything all right, Monsieur Cousteau! Kilwillie: If I see any suspicious-looking fins, I'll go like this: dum-dum-dum-dum dum-dum-dum-dum... |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 10: - Episode Ten Golly Mackenzie: [Golly hands Hector a fishing fly] Take this. If there are fish in that loch, and I'm damn sure there are, then you'll catch some with that. As Duncan says, it'll be as easy as pulling at a grab a granny night in a disco in Wick. Hector MacDonald: I'm baffled by the allusion but I thank you all the same. |

