What's the point of the Secret Service if they're not actually secret?
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[To Mrs Kish.] I'm not here to hurt you. I'm from the BBC.
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.
In Lucerne. It's supposed to be very beautiful.
Too many cuckoo clocks.
We'd never buy a cuckoo clock.
Oh, good. You'll be there.
Of course.
The commute would be a bit tricky.
I'll buy a sea plane.
Oh, naturally.
Land in Tooting Bec Lido each morning. Up on the Northern Line, cross onto the Central and...
What will we do with the children?
Gilbert and Maud? Glove compartment.
Thank God for that. And we'd be happy.
Ecstatic. We won't want to be anywhere else. With anyone else.
Why did Ruth come to me?
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.
[to Bel] At least you're not his secretary. You see, I knew you were an intelligent woman. I knew that I wouldn't have to say much. Normally, it's with one of those silly little girls. I'm just glad that with a clever women like you, you do fully understand. He just can't control himself. I think it's the creative in him. Picasso has a heap of lovers. Not that I'm putting Hector on a par with an artiste like that, but there is always someone. And normally I have to unpick their little fingers from his arm. But it is such a relief to finally meet a proper woman. I do like you very much. You're such fun. He's always just on loan. And he always comes back.
[describing some of her photographs.]That one was taken just outside of Madrid. They were one of the last to surrender in '39. She was running away from her house, leaving everything. A row of men are being executed just behind that door. Amongst them, her husband. She... She didn't look back. And I was irritated because I had my camera in my hand and I couldn't find another film. They were being shot one by one and all I could think was, "I've got no bloody film." I'm still proud I got it.
[to Clarence] Is it not our duty as journalists to present balanced news frankly, fearlessly and reasonably?
Do you think I'm a weak person, Hector?
What?
I've never been to war, I've never fought for anything.
You fight every day, Freddie. Weak's not the word I'd use.
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...
DODouglas Owen
Shut it down, now.
...and the countries of the United Nations Security Council...
DODouglas Owen
I want it off, now!
If we cannot reasonably and intelligently query our politicians...
DODouglas Owen
Shut down The Hour.
...about the rightness of an action that appears at heart to be deceitful...
DODouglas Owen
Do it now.
...then we are not a free...
[Silence.]
DODouglas Owen
[to Bel] You're fired.
Right. I expected nothing less.
Ambition over integrity, Hector. Well done.
Freddie needed a chance.
Liar.
CClarence
I don't know why they don't suspect us more, us journalists. We're thrust into world events, life-changing events. And they expect us not to be changed. Well, it changed me. It changed my view of the world.
Do you trust me?
More than anyone else.
Not good enough. Missed the mark again.
I hate you. I hate you.
I hate you too.
Uncovered are snapping at your heels?
And despite ITV's attempts to colonise many aspects of the show, The Hour is still exemplary in its field.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Exactly.
Except it's better.
I'm sorry?
Uncovered is better.
The last time I watched this programme, and admittedly that was some time ago, then, then one could feel the tingle, hear the tick. Let me hear your tick, Miss Rowley.
Sorry. Am I boring you?
Yes, you are. You are boring me. I'm bored.
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