[to Hector] You're an alcoholic. That was the first sentence my head of news ever said to me. The second, "Congratulations, you're in good company."
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[to Bel] You know, really, darling, you are not getting any younger. Surprise me. Buy a bottle of wine, drink yourself silly and dance all night with some inappropriate man like you used to. It's much better than staying in with a good book. Me? I'm old. I've made my mistakes. But you, too pretty. Don't let it go to waste. Run away for too long and they stop loving you back.
[to Bel, about the accusations against Hector] Heroes or villains, we're all somewhere in between. The good do bad things and the bad are sometimes kind to their mothers.
[Camille is in the bath after having been covered in soot by a fascist neighbour.]
CCamille
I hate this country.
Don't hate this country. I live in this country. And you love me.
Mr Madden's the best out there.
You'll ruin his career. You'll give him six months on Uncovered, then he'll be earmarked for light entertainment. He'll be in a sparkly suit, spinning a cardboard roulette wheel on a quiz show by next Christmas.
I can assure you I want Mr Madden for more than his croupier skills.
He is highly corruptible. I'm sure he'll take whatever is offered. He's also very self-destructive. Brilliant people often are. Too much money is bad for him. That's why I'd rather you didn't.
And if I do? Your producer has already said she'll hunt me down.
That's covered, then. Good luck.
Where have you been?
Buying pornography. And you?
Picking up fascists.
There might be better days to test run this as an idea. Sundays are good.
We don't work Sundays.
You're getting my drift.
How did you get hold of this?
Feminine guile. Five bob and a pint.
[to Freddie] Do you calculate in advance how to make me look a fool or does inspiration strike you in the moment?
CMr Cilenti
Mr Lyon, this is a nice club. You're very welcome here but I ask all my clientele, please, leave your work elsewhere...
Sorry, but my work is everywhere but elsewhere.
CMr Cilenti
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.
Who's that? An actor?
Peter Grey, co-founder of the League For Homosexual Law Reform.
A homosexual?
Yes, Mr Wengrow. Remarkable. Looks just like you or I.
On the programme?
Mr Wengrow, if we're making a programme about birds, who would we contact?
The Royal Society for the Protection of...
Birds. Exactly. But we would not go on to assume that the spokesman they sent us was themselves feathered with a beak.
What's going on?
Um, Mr Madden is presenting Wolfenden.
I specifically said I want...
Mr Lyon is insistent. You are overruled. Which is my privilege as producer from time to time, is it not?
Why is Mr Lyon throwing him a lifeline?
I don't know. But let's give him the benefit of the doubt, shall we?
Overruled I am.
[to Hector] I used to think that getting under your skin was a form of sport, now I look on it as a moral duty.
Isaac, I presume when you go home tonight your mother will be waiting?
Yes.
I'd like you to thank her for me, for having the foresight to deliver a son.
I saw a musical.
A musical?
Why not? I was in the West End and I do sometimes. I thought...
I hate musicals.
Yes, that's what I thought.
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