The Human Factor (1979)

Nicol Williamson: Maurice Castle

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• Maurice Castle : [referring to Davis]  He calls all children "little bastards".

• Colonel John Daintry : I talked to Davis about you, so, now I'm talking to you about Davis. It's an open check. I gather that politically he's - a bit on the left.

  Maurice Castle : Oh, yes. He's a member of the Labour party.

  Colonel John Daintry : And you?

  Maurice Castle : I have no politics, as Davis no doubt told you.

• Arthur Davis : You going out to sell a few secrets?

  Maurice Castle : I find that the bottom has dropped out of the market for British secrets? How about you?

  Arthur Davis : Oh, I have to take what I can get for them. Bachelors need the money more than you married men.

• Sir John Hargreaves : Why don't you have him home for a meal? That's what I do when I want to keep outsiders at arm's length. They'll go away thinking they've been clasp to the bosom.

  Maurice Castle : I don't know if my wife would agree.

• Cornelius Muller : You've been very imprudent. Security Police, it's Captain Van Donck, who brought the matter to our attention. He fears that diplomatic privilege are often unduly stretched as far as junior employees of an Embassy are concerned. He would like to go through the formal arresting charges for breaking the law.

  Maurice Castle : What law?

  Van Donck : If you want to fuck a black whore, why don't you go to a whorehouse in Lesotho or Swaziland? They're still part of your so-called Commonwealth.

• Maurice Castle : Connolly, I'm damn grateful.

  Matthew Connolly : It's all for the cause.

  Maurice Castle : I wish I could say I was part of your cause. But, I'm not. Maybe your communism isn't real communism.

  Matthew Connolly : It's real communism, all right.

• Arthur Davis : How's Sarah?

  Maurice Castle : Fine.

  Arthur Davis : And the little bastard?

  Maurice Castle : The little bastard's fine too.

  Arthur Davis : I wish I had a little bastard.

• Maurice Castle : You knew and you didn't tell me?

  Sarah : It's not your concern. The father's dead. I told you.

  Maurice Castle : You didn't tell me you were carrying his *bastard*.

  Sarah : Is that that what a white girl would have done?

  Maurice Castle : You made a fool of me!

  Sarah : Bloody hypocrite! Don't act as you met me at the tennis club dance. You just wanted to try a black girl, didn't you? See if it's true what they say.

  Maurice Castle : Don't talk like a whore!

  Sarah : I'll talk the way I feel!