The Hour · Season 1
A new programme, a new era. And they want me as producer.
They're humouring you. They don't want a woman. A woman is difficult, hysterical. And you can never really find one who will ever stay. A couple more years, you'll probably want a baby.
Oh, don't speak!
And even if they don't say that to your face, that's what they're thinking. Anything else is just your vanity making you believe...
What? That I can do it? That I can actually do this? Watch me.
You know some nice girl needs to rescue you.
Who? There's only ever been you. And you're not even that nice.
[to Freddie] When I was in France, there were these men I'd... Hmm, I'd loosely call them journalists, but they were never at the front. They never stuck their head above the parapet. They were terrified of being shot. Yet they wrote some of the best battle reportage that I've ever read. Filched most of it from us, and what they didn't know, they'd make up. But you're not one of them. And you'll never truly know, will you, Freddie? Unless you stick your neck out and get yourself a little bit muddy. Come on, jump. I dare you.
After I gave you that lamp, we ate at that terrible Chinese. It's an Anglepoise because you press your face too close to the page when you read and there's never enough light. And you won't wear glasses because you say your nose is too small and with glasses you'd look like a mole which you don't. Wouldn’t. They'd suit you. You'd look just as fairly beautiful as you are. It's yellow because you said no one wants a yellow lamp. So I thought if I got it for you in yellow then no one would steal it from your desk. I do give these things quite a lot of consideration, you see. The devil is in the detail.
Looking forward to working with you.
Well, at least that makes one of us.
[Isaac is in an astronaut suit.]
Mr Lyon, I can't breathe.
I'll let the American space programme know.
Whisky is God's way of telling us that he loves us and he wants us to be happy.
You know that a monthly subscription to Marvel's All-True Crime doesn't make you a real detective?
Doesn't it?
Is there anything you can't do, Hector?
Um... Not really.
How do you do it? How do you know exactly the right question to ask?
Because I'm not afraid of the answers.
Isaac. Just the man. Tomorrow, I want you in.
It's Saturday.
Your commitment has been duly noted.
My first girlfriend was a debutante. I wrote her pages of godawful poetry during the war.
Line?
Happily forgotten.
I don't think I've ever been sent love poetry.
Yes, you have.
[The men are coming back from a hunt.]
How many did you miss?
As many as I could. Don't like shooting things.
Well, how do you think they killed that beef you had for lunch?
With boredom?
Why would you marry someone you didn't love?
Are you asking? Because you were lonely. Because you had to.
Because you were in trouble.
Pregnant?
Is that... That is what "trouble" means?
Poor, innocent boy.
[Mr Kish attacks Freddie.]
I don't want to die in the bloody office!
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