The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV series)/Awesome


 * Percy has just managed to talk a young woman who is convinced that her foppish lover is the Pimpernel and that Percy is a cowardly traitor who has just betrayed him to the French (when in fact the French have arrested her lover partly due to her conviction that he is the Pimpernel) out of shooting him. The woman calls Percy a coward. Percy points out that he unflinchingly talked her down with a loaded gun pointed at him, hardly a cowardly action. The woman sneers that she's knows that Percy would not have allowed a loaded gun to be pointed at him, and that she's aware that it's empty. Percy's response is to calmly pick up the gun, point it at a nearby candle and pull the trigger, which settles the matter; much to the woman's shock, it turns out the gun was loaded.