Bel Rowley quotes from The Hour

Freddie

Where have you been?

Bel

Buying pornography. And you?

Freddie

Picking up fascists.

Freddie

How did you get hold of this?

Bel

Feminine guile. Five bob and a pint.

Who's that? An actor?

Bel

Peter Grey, co-founder of the League For Homosexual Law Reform.

A homosexual?

Lix

Yes, Mr Wengrow. Remarkable. Looks just like you or I.

On the programme?

Lix

Mr Wengrow, if we're making a programme about birds, who would we contact?

The Royal Society for the Protection of...

Lix

Birds. Exactly. But we would not go on to assume that the spokesman they sent us was themselves feathered with a beak.

Randall Brown

What's going on?

Bel

Um, Mr Madden is presenting Wolfenden.

Randall Brown

I specifically said I want...

Bel

Mr Lyon is insistent. You are overruled. Which is my privilege as producer from time to time, is it not?

Randall Brown

Why is Mr Lyon throwing him a lifeline?

Bel

I don't know. But let's give him the benefit of the doubt, shall we?

Randall Brown

Overruled I am.

Bel

[about Freddie] God, he's so frustrating! He really is! Well, don't smile. Why are you laughing?

Hector

Because for someone so brutally honest with everyone else, you display such blatant deceit when it comes to yourself.

Bel

Freddie's...

Hector

Back. I hear his wife is still away. Well, you always did have a penchant for the married man.

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.

Bel

I just... I can't do this. I can't be this.

Yes, you can. There's more to life than chasing history.

Bel

No, there isn't. The truth is something you don't have to lie about.

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.

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...