Black Books (TV Series)

Manny Come Home (2004)

Tamsin Greig: Fran

Quotes 

• Fran : Manny? Bernard?

  Bernard : Oh. It's you. Go round the green binbags. Turn right at the mouldy George Elliot, forward, forward and turn left at the dead badger.

• Fran : Where's Manny?

  Bernard : Him? He left. That's what happens when you love someone and nurture them and take care of them.

  Fran : You mean you fired him.

  Bernard : There may have been an incident involving a hand and a kitchen item and maybe the item was a sandwich toaster and maybe the hand was Manny's and maybe I introduced them to one another.

  Fran : So he's gone.

  Bernard : Oh no, he still sleeps here, burrowed in like the little tick he is. But he leaves every day. Every day is another betrayal.

• Bernard : Look at him. He's bending down now. He's standing up now. I knew he'd do that.

  Fran : Is this really helping.

• Bernard : Haven't you got other friends to annoy? Why don't you go and persecute them?

  Manny : Yeah, society lady? How come you went to Cornwall on your own?

  Fran : I've got friends.

  Bernard : Well, go to them.

  Fran : I will.

  Manny : Don't let us stop you.

  Fran : I won't.

• Fran : Bernard, are you alright?

  Bernard : Never better. I've discovered television.

• Fran : I have to have somewhere to go Manny. And if you don't come back to the shop? I'll just have to live here.