Freddie Lyon quotes from The Hour

Bel

Five years from now, I'll be doing what I do now a bit better. I won't live in Clapham. I'll have an exquisite apartment.

Freddie

In Lucerne. It's supposed to be very beautiful.

Bel

Too many cuckoo clocks.

Freddie

We'd never buy a cuckoo clock.

Bel

Oh, good. You'll be there.

Freddie

Of course.

Bel

The commute would be a bit tricky.

Freddie

I'll buy a sea plane.

Bel

Oh, naturally.

Freddie

Land in Tooting Bec Lido each morning. Up on the Northern Line, cross onto the Central and...

Bel

What will we do with the children?

Freddie

Gilbert and Maud? Glove compartment.

Bel

Thank God for that. And we'd be happy.

Freddie

Ecstatic. We won't want to be anywhere else. With anyone else.

Freddie

Why did Ruth come to me?

Bel

Because you're tenacious. Because you care more about the truth than you do about your own safety. Because if I was scared for my life, I would run to you. And trust that you would know the answer.

Freddie

Do you think I'm a weak person, Hector?

Hector

What?

Freddie

I've never been to war, I've never fought for anything.

Hector

You fight every day, Freddie. Weak's not the word I'd use.

Freddie

Ladies and gentlemen. If we cannot debate that which troubles our society, and more importantly troubles our government, then we cannot, in all honestly, calls ourselves a democracy. If we cannot question our leaders as they embark on what has been called an illegal military action, an action publicly opposed by the United States government...

Shut it down, now.

Freddie

...and the countries of the United Nations Security Council...

I want it off, now!

Freddie

If we cannot reasonably and intelligently query our politicians...

Shut down The Hour.

Freddie

...about the rightness of an action that appears at heart to be deceitful...

Do it now.

Freddie

...then we are not a free...

[to Bel] You're fired.

Bel

Right. I expected nothing less.

Freddie

Do you trust me?

Bel

More than anyone else.

Freddie

Not good enough. Missed the mark again.

Bel

I hate you. I hate you.

Freddie

I hate you too.

I hate this country.

Freddie

Don't hate this country. I live in this country. And you love me.

Freddie

Where have you been?

Bel

Buying pornography. And you?

Freddie

Picking up fascists.

Randall Brown

There might be better days to test run this as an idea. Sundays are good.

Freddie

We don't work Sundays.

Randall Brown

You're getting my drift.

Freddie

How did you get hold of this?

Bel

Feminine guile. Five bob and a pint.

Mr Lyon, this is a nice club. You're very welcome here but I ask all my clientele, please, leave your work elsewhere...

Freddie

Sorry, but my work is everywhere but elsewhere.

This is neither the time nor the place. Good night for now, Mr Lyon. But do become a frequent visitor. I encourage you to make yourself at home. Though a word of advice to you and your friends at The Hour. You know, drink my champagne, eat my oysters. But don't think for a moment you won't pay.

Freddie

Isaac, I presume when you go home tonight your mother will be waiting?

Yes.

Freddie

I'd like you to thank her for me, for having the foresight to deliver a son.

Freddie

I wrote you two letters. One from San Diego, one from New York. - And I said...

Bel

Freddie.

Freddie

... just get on a plane. Just get on a plane and come. And I said... And you, you didn't write back. And I told myself, of course, it's because you love news more. That doing this would always be more important than any man. So I will see you tonight at El Paradis. Because this is what we do.

Freddie

You are not impossible. Impossible is just what hasn't been done. It's not impossible when it's possible.

Bel

We need to talk. We haven't...

Freddie

Haven't what?

Bel

We haven't... About us.

Freddie

No, we don't, we need to stop talking, we talk too much. Instead, we have to do something.

Freddie

I am tired of it not being possible, it is possible. You are possible. You are possible with me.

Freddie

You got a fascist as your first recruit! That's impressive.

You do like to rile.

Freddie

I confess I do.

Bel

[voiceover, reading a letter] Dear Freddie, So I got your letter. San Francisco? Amazing. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to write back. "There are life's natural heroes and then there's you." Your words. You always believed somewhere deep in you that there is a coward. I wish I had told you that that's not true. Because you leapt, while I stayed, feet first, into the unknown. Why should I have expected anything less than fearlessness from you?

Freddie

Money...

Bel

But I am not as brave as you. I want to write and say I'll be there, I'll get on a plane, I'll come right now. I really do, but I can't. Not because I don't love you. I love you, Freddie Lyon.

Freddie

Money...

Bel

But because you won't even get this letter.

Freddie

Money...

Bel

Because I won't ever send it. I'm the coward, Freddie, not you. So instead, I'm sending this prayer out there.

Freddie

Moneypenny...

Bel

Just hoping that somehow you'll know to come home. Just please come home, now, soon. And maybe your courage will make me brave, too. Just come home and I will leap, too.

Freddie

Moneypenny...