My Family (TV Series)

Death Takes a Policy (2000)

Phillip Manikum: Patient

Quotes 

• Ben Harper : Right, Mr Briggs. I think the anaesthetic's taken effect. You feel that?

  [Taps his mouth] 

  Patient : Oooh!

  Ben Harper : Alright, we'll wait. Whiny little arse!

  Patient : Mmhmm?

  Ben Harper : Why not take a glass... of water?

• Brigitte McKay : Much as I've come to admire you, Mr H - actually, 'admire' is a bit too strong a word - you are missing the big picture.

  Ben Harper : No. Small man; small business; no room for big picture.

  Nick Harper : No, I think she's right, dad. I mean, a good life insurance policy...

  Brigitte McKay : Oh, no, I'm not talking petit bourgeois life insurance. Mmhmm. I am talking The Great Mandala.

  Nick Harper : What, the South African bloke with the batty ex-wife?

  Brigitte McKay : No, the mystic wheel of truth where all truth is found.

  Nick Harper : Looks like you picked another winner here, dad!

  Brigitte McKay : According to The Great Mandala, everything - life, death, the whole shebang - is all interconnected through an infinite web of relationships. OK, you with me? People, for example, eat chops; which come from cows; which are raised in Scotland; which during the War of the Austrian Succession was supported by the French; who cook with absolutely loads of garlic; which repels vampires who suck the blood out of whom?

  Patient : Bats?

  Brigitte McKay : No. People - who eat chops! Voila! Le circle et complait!

  Ben Harper : [pause]  Brigitte, erm... chops come from pigs and sheep, not cows.