Sharpe, Harper and others in “Unfinished Business”

What do you reckon then, Pat? This Khande Rao can be taken?

Well he has a reputation of being a real monster.

[comes up from behind a tent] If he is a monster, Mr. Harper, then he's one of British making.

How's that, Captain?

The Company have only maintained the peace here, by keeping the princes at each other's throats. Khande Rao's father: he feared his neighbours more than he hated the British. And so it was your country that kept him supplied with arms.

That sounds just like the English: getting someone else to do its dirty work!

The son is not the father, however: Khande Rao wants you out of our country; once and for all. It is a view with which I cannot say I do not have some sympathy.

So why are you fighting with us?

Khande Rao is... a sworn enemy of my blood. And that makes you my enemy's enemy, and therefore, a necessary evil. Good day to you both.

I don't think I like the sound of that. A necessary evil...

Were we ever been else?

Oh. And there was me thinking we were always on the side of the angels.