The Tunnel (TV Series)
Episode #1.6 (2013)
Stephen Dillane: Karl Roebuck
Quotes
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Elise Wassermann : [Karl presses building buzzer] Yes?
Karl Roebuck : Karl.
Elise Wassermann : Who?
Karl Roebuck : Karl! Sensitive Karl. The sporty intellectual.
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Karl Roebuck : [Elise and Karl are in the car. Elise is driving] You can't do that.
Elise Wassermann : Do what?
Karl Roebuck : Whatever it was you were doing together. What was it you were doing together?
[Elise looks at him, bewildered]
Karl Roebuck : Don't answer that.
Elise Wassermann : What are you trying to ask me?
Karl Roebuck : Did you have sex with my son?
Elise Wassermann : [Looking at Karl, perplexed] He's eighteen.
Karl Roebuck : I know!
Elise Wassermann : He's entitled to a private life.
Karl Roebuck : That's the sort of thing that people who don't have kids say.
[pauses]
Karl Roebuck : He's entitled to try and keep things from his parents is what he's entitled to do, and on this occasion he didn't manage it.
[Louder]
Karl Roebuck : Did you have sex with my son?
Elise Wassermann : Am *I* entitled to a private life?
Karl Roebuck : [Louder still] Did you have sex with my son?
Elise Wassermann : [Looks at him for three seconds with kindness before answering] No.
Karl Roebuck : [Looks relieved. Pauses, then speaks softly] Right.
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Adam Roebuck : So how's it going with Elise?
Karl Roebuck : [Standing, with one foot on a chair, tying his shoe, and his mouth full of breakfast bread and butter] How is what going with Elise?
Adam Roebuck : Working together.
Karl Roebuck : Working fine together.
[Adam gives Karl a cup of coffee, Karl looks at him slightly surprised, and takes a sip]
Karl Roebuck : Mmm. Ta.
Adam Roebuck : Is she single?
Karl Roebuck : [Scoffs] Tell me you're joking.
Adam Roebuck : Well, she's nearer my age than yours.
Karl Roebuck : I'm not asking if she's single.
[pauses]
Karl Roebuck : . I'll tell you what, I'm seeing her in a minute. I'll tell her she's got an admirer.
[Looks at Adam]
Karl Roebuck : Tidy your room.
