Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV Series)

Episode #4.1 (2011)

Billie Piper: Belle, Hannah

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Belle : [to the viewer]  There's so much to tell you.

• Belle : [at door of well-to-do residence]  Every London girl's dream...

  [shows key] 

  Belle : My own front door.

  [unlocks] 

• Belle : [inside her swanky home]  And this is all for me! My sanctuary. My haven!

  [opens bedroom door] 

  Belle : My boudoir. The height of luxury.

  [in daydream sequence, collapses backwards onto bed strewn with rose petals mimicking "American Beauty"] 

• Belle : [muttering to herself as Poppy goes off to the bathroom]  Typical bloody Stephanie. Even behind bars, she's calling the shots. Still, Poppy seems... sweet, you know, she's hardly the devil's spawn.

• Poppy : So, are you a corporate headhunter too?

  Belle : [nods]  Yes.

  [what else is there to say?] 

  Poppy : Do you work for the same company as Mum?

  Belle : Er, no. Well, I... I used... I used to. But, uh, now I'm more on the... the operations front.

  Poppy : Oh, it's lucky you weren't stuck out in Saudi as well. Mum reckons she might be out there for weeks working on this job.

  Belle : [as Poppy puts on lip-ice]  Saudi?

  Poppy : Mm. She must hate it out there - the way they treat women.

  Belle : [with irony]  Awful, huh?

  Poppy : Hmm.

• Ben : [after startling her at her front door]  Good to see you, too.

  Belle : Sorry, I wasn't expecting you.

  Ben : Yeah,

  [laying on the irony:] 

  Ben : I just thought I'd come and say hi, say thanks - all the postcards, e-mails. Overwhelming.

  Belle : It was a tropical island, Ben.

  Ben : How about since you've been back? Or have you been too busy with the whole head-in-the-sand hiding thing?

  Belle : Are you just gonna stand on my doorstep and insult me?

  Ben : I could come in and do it.

  Belle : [chuckles]  Thought you'd never ask.

• [last lines] 

  Ben : Your job is just your job, Hannah. It's not you. I can handle it.

  Belle : If I lose you, Ben, I'll have nobody.

  Ben : You will not lose me.

  Belle : But I might.

  Ben : Hannah, there are thousands of reasons why we shouldn't try. There are thousands more why we should.

  [they kiss, looking like an ideal couple, but she gives a troubled look over his shoulder]