Eddie Connolly, Tommy Connolly and others in “The Idiot's Lantern”

Listen, you little twerp! You're hardly out of the blooming' cradle, so I don't expect you to understand, but I've got a position to maintain! People round here respect me! It matters what people think!

Is that why you did it, Dad?

What do you mean? Did what?

You ratted on Gran! How else would the police know where to look, unless some coward told them?!

HOW DARE YOU! Do you think I fought a war just so a mouthy little SCUM LIKE YOU COULD CALL ME A COWARD?!

You don't get it, do you? You fought against fascism, remember?! People telling you how to live, who you could be friends with, who you could fall in love with, who could live and who had to die. Don't you get it? You were fighting so that little twerps like me could do what we want, say what we want! Now you've become just like them. You've been informing on everyone, haven't you? Even Gran. All to protect your precious reputation!

Eddie, is that true?

I did it for us, Rita! SHE WAS FILTHY! A FILTHY, DISGUSTING THING!

[appalled] She's my mother. All the others you informed on, all the people in our street, our friends...

I had to! I... I did the right thing!

The right thing for us, or for you, Eddie? You go, Tommy. Go with the Doctor and do some good. Get away from this house and its poison. [to Eddie, angrily] We've had a ruddy monster under this roof, all right, but it weren't my mother! [slams the door on him]