Last Tango in Halifax (TV Series)

Episode #2.4 (2013)

Tony Gardner: John

Quotes 

• Judith : Oh, you're a plagiarist.

  John : No!

  Judith : You even copied ideas I talked about. Writing it from

  [looking at Gillian] 

  Judith : Bathsheba Everdene's point of view.

  John : That was entirely my idea.

  Judith : No. I put the idea in your head.

  John : This is a fantasy you've misremembered.

  Judith : No.

  John : You probably had a drink.

  Judith : Oh, you definitely had a drink!

  John : Judith, it's my story. This is my family. You don't even know these people.

  Judith : So bloody what? Shakespeare didn't know Richard the Third. It didn't stop him writing a shitty play about him.

• Gillian : [over a meal with Raff and John]  Am I your muse?

  John : Well, at the risk of sounding wanky again...

  Gillian : Wow. Never been anybody's muse before. Not that I'm aware of.

  Raff : There's a surprise.

  Gillian : Sod off.

  [the baby fusses] 

  Gillian : Oops, sorry, Calamity.

  Raff : Oh, that's going to stick now, thanks to deaf Granddad.

  Gillian : I like it. Wish he'd called me that. Sounds like someone who can kick arse.