A Very English Scandal (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.2 (2018)

Hugh Grant: Jeremy Thorpe

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• Jeremy Thorpe : [learning that Peter Bessell is planning to re-marry and leave for America]  Peter, I wish you a long and happy life. And then I wish for Norman Scott to be killed.

• [Jeremy Thorpe and Peter Bessell head towards Jeremy's office] 

  Jeremy Thorpe : Of course, the real question is where to dispose of the body. In New York they drop corpses in the river. I've read that you can seal a body in concrete at the base of a motorway. Tin mines. That's the solution.

  [David Holmes is waiting outside Jeremy Thorpe's office] 

  Jeremy Thorpe : David, ready for you now. Come in, lock the door. So, as I was saying. Norman Scott. Tin mines. Hundreds of abandoned tin mines all over Cornwall.

  David Holmes : Brilliant. You drop the body down there, he'll never be found.

  Jeremy Thorpe : Take him to the pub, get him drunk, shove him in a car, drive him out to Bodmin Moor, kill him.

  Peter Bessell : That's *my* constituency.

  David Holmes : Kill him how?

  Jeremy Thorpe : Oh, come on, it's quite easy to break someone's neck. Come here, Pedro. Elbow there, jerk up...

  [he demonstrates on Peter Bessell] 

  David Holmes : He might wriggle out of it. Men like him tend to be wrigglers.

  Jeremy Thorpe : Then you'll just have to shoot him, David. Can you get a gun?

  David Holmes : I can do whatever you want, Jeremy.

  Jeremy Thorpe : [imitating David Holmes's northern accent]  He can "Do whatever I want, Jeremy". Well, shoot the bugger stone dead.

  [Peter Bessell looks horrified at the way events are unfolding]