The Night Manager (TV Series)

Episode #1.6 (2016)

Hugh Laurie: Richard Roper

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• Angela Burr : Aw, no joy? Must be a peculiar feeling is it? VIP rooms, five star hotels. You're now on the wrong side of the velvet rope. Do you feel quite discombobulated?

  Richard Onslow Roper : I suppose you've been preparing this for a while. Practicing in front of the mirror, have we?

  Angela Burr : Yeah. Since the sports day, in Kurdistan. I always thought those kids could do with more protection. So that's what's happening now. Me and Jonathan, we're protecting them. Not the ones you've already killed, obviously. But the next ones.

  Richard Onslow Roper : Protecting from what? From me? I never killed anyone. I never stole, never fiddled my taxes. All I did was work for a company. Owned and operated by your little Pinocchio. I might get a fifty quid fine. With a bit of luck, they'll let me pay in instalments.

  Angela Burr : Yeah, probably right. Government lawyers, useless aren't they? I was one once.

• Richard Onslow Roper : It's a very rare thing, Jonathan Pine, for me to trust a person. But you were special. I knew it the first moment I saw you. Saved my son. Risked your life. Should have known something was wrong.

  Jonathan Pine : I don't know what you're talking about.

  Richard Onslow Roper : Corky knew it, of course. Tried to make me see. Poor old Corks. You killed him, I suppose. To save your own skin. Yes? He was a good man, Corks. Loyal man. Now he's lying in a ditch on a Turkish mountain because of you. Well, for his sake and for mine, I can promise you that your death will be a hundred times worse. Who are you working with?

  Jonathan Pine : No one.

  Richard Onslow Roper : Well, that's not true. I know you're working with Jed. That's a mistake by the way. Not the sort of thing a man does.

  [shows him a picture of Jed bloodied and bruised] 

  Jonathan Pine : [furious]  You sick fuck!

• Richard Onslow Roper : [to Jonathan]  Oh you beauty!

• Richard Onslow Roper : Why did you do it, Jonathan?

  Jonathan Pine : You have to commit. You have to make a decision.

  Richard Onslow Roper : Couldn't just scratch my nose, could you?

  Richard Onslow Roper : [winks]  See you in a few days.

• Richard Onslow Roper : [to Jed]  Oh dear. It's hard keeping track of all those codes and pin numbers, isn't it? Have you tried your birthday?

  Jed Marshall : I just found this...

  Richard Onslow Roper : Oh, Jemima. You let someone break in here and steal from me. The question is, who? Please don't tell me it was Corky. Because I *might* not believe you.

  Richard Onslow Roper : [brings the phone to his ear]  Morning, Frisky. Would you mind stepping in here for a moment?

• Kouyami : If you do not pay me, there will be consequences.

  Richard Onslow Roper : [screams]  Don't you dare threaten me! Who do you think did this? Arab militias! Little brown rats like the rest of you! You'll get your money when I'm good and ready! Understand?