S1E1 (3)
Speaker 5
Oh, this is everything from today.
Speaker 6
What did your last servant die of? What did your last boss die of?
Speaker 8
Good night. Yeah.
Speaker 3
I think you'd probably say a swift half, or better still, a slow pint.
Speaker 5
Erm, I've got a friend coming over. I can't tonight.
Speaker 3
I'd better get back to family. So, text her that you're busy saving the nation. I'd like to be there for the kids' bedtime, but, you know, another evening.You always say that. Well, maybe tomorrow. Tomorrow, then.Louisa, tomorrow?
Speaker 5
Yeah, maybe tomorrow.
Speaker 3
It's a date. Leo's.
Speaker 4
We can't stop these people crossing the channel, the English channel, in their rubber divvy. I say the Royal Navy, whatever it takes to keep Britain British.
Speaker 5
How long have you been in here? What? You look like a mole.
Speaker 1
A mole?
Speaker 5
You're a closet nationalist now.
Speaker 1
I know, I found it in Hobson's rubbish.
Speaker 5
River?
Speaker 1
Yes, yes, yes, I know, I still need to clean up. Just, erm, ended up down a pretty dark rabbit hole.
Speaker 5
All rabbit holes are darker underground.
Speaker 1
Thanks.
Speaker 5
Who's this?
Speaker 1
Greg Simmons, you know him?
Speaker 5
Yeah, sleazy businessman who can't get over the fact Britain won a war 70 years ago.
Speaker 1
A war that he seems to think was actually fought against ethnic minorities and political correctness, rather than the Nazis. Yeah.
Speaker 8
Yeah.
Speaker 1
You ever listen to one of his speeches? No.
Speaker 4
These immigrants say they don't like our religion, they don't like our way of life. And yet it's us that get arrested by our own police force for saying the wrong things, for telling jokes. I tell you, this is a war.
Speaker 1
Yeah, can't take any more of that. MI5 reckon that he has been funding a lot of these new hate groups. Spends his time rubbing shoulders with politicians while immigrants have their homes burnt down.
Speaker 5
I'm not sure this is a great way to be spending your spare time.
Speaker 1
You've seen my work on the floor.
Speaker 5
Oh, cry me a river, river. Look, seriously, as a friend...
Speaker 1
As a friend? Are we friends? I don't think I'm ready to make that kind of commitment, to be honest with you.
Speaker 5
Look, what I'm seeing right now is just not good for your dating profile.
Speaker 1
What, are you my dating coach?
Speaker 5
Absolutely not, that would be a full-time job.
Speaker 1
All right, you're here after hours, what's your excuse?
Speaker 5
Yeah, my phone charger.
Speaker 1
A phone charger? You came all the way back for a phone charger?
Speaker 5
I was having drinks nearby.
Speaker 1
Well, thanks for the invite.
Speaker 5
I've invited you before and you turn me down. What? Once bitten.
Speaker 1
No, you haven't.
Speaker 5
Yes, I have.
Speaker 1
No, you...
Speaker 6
Fucking hell. If people are happy to spend time in this building after 5pm, then I'm not really doing my job.
Speaker 5
I left my phone charger.
Speaker 1
I was going to clean up the rubbish, sorry. Fuck off. Fuck off as in go home, or fuck off as in you don't believe us?
Speaker 6
At the end of the working day, your pitiful, miserable time is your own. But if I find out you are indulging in extracurricular activities that could upset the equilibrium of this blessed sanctuary, then I will make it so that you wish you were in a Siberian gulag.
Speaker 3
Twice in one day. That girl earlier, the one who spilled my coffee. Did she leave soon after me?I can't remember. I think so.
Has she been in here before?A few times recently. Oh yeah. Wait, if she comes in again, give me a call.Yeah, sure.
Speaker 8
Dirty old man.
Speaker 7
Looking back, I probably already had a drinking problem. But when my dad died, I just got really, really lost. He was 56.Aneurysm. Gone. It totally upended me.I started suffering blackouts. Charles?
Speaker 8
Morning, Charles.
Speaker 7
In the evening as I got sober. So I did.
Speaker 8
Charles? Charles?
Speaker 5
Catherine. Catherine. You haven't spoken.My name's Catherine. I'm an alcoholic. I'll just listen tonight.
Speaker 9
You know you left the front door open?
Speaker 2
I saw you driving up.
Speaker 9
Are you sure you didn't leave it open by mistake?
Speaker 2
I've prepared a second piece. You can cook. You heard from your mother recently?
Speaker 1
Oh. Yeah. Postcard from Istanbul, of all places.She's opening a guest house with her current boyfriend. And you're out of lemons.
Speaker 2
Yeah, well, that plan will have changed by the time the card arrived.
Speaker 1
Yeah, boyfriend too, knowing her.
Speaker 2
You know, I always expected her to turn up here with a KGB spook on her arm. That would have been the ultimate rebellion. No, this is...It's hard as an egg, this. You know they keep better in the fridge. I always understood a lemon could last as long as an 18th century naval voyage.Yes, well, this is the 21st century.
Speaker 1
So we can take full advantage of modern food preservation techniques. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2
Chicken's burning. Shit.
Speaker 1
No, it's not burning. It's searing. It's exactly the way I wanted it.
Speaker 2
Did you ever come across Robert Hopton? Ah, so you didn't visit me just to lecture me on home safety and food hygiene. No, no, I wanted to see you too, I did.I've wanted to see me that much lately.
Speaker 1
Yeah, well, there's not really been that much to report, has there, from Slough House.
Speaker 2
They won't keep you there forever. I was given the impression that they probably will. Well, that's the point.If you knew it was for only six months, it wouldn't hurt.
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's been eight months.
Speaker 2
Well, you do your time. Whatever gruntwork Jackson Lamb throws your way, then you head back to Regent's Park, your sins forgiven.
Speaker 1
Lamb's been there years, so they've obviously never forgiven him. The man practically lives there. Was he ever actually good?I just... I can't imagine it. I'll lay the table.
Speaker 3
You are not listening to me, Jack. There is going to be an attack. People are going to get hurt.I can't tell you any more because I put myself at risk. No, no, forget about any fucking loyalty to me.
Do this for your country.Fine. But know this. There will be blood on your hands.
