Shoestring (TV Series)

Another Man's Castle (1980)

John Forgeham: Terry Bowen

Quotes 

• [Terry Bowen has bought a seaside cottage, which he's planning rent out to holidaymakers and has arrived at the property to evict the current tenant] 

  Terry Bowen : Come on, come on! I know you're in there. Come on, open the door, I'll kick the bloody thing in!

  [a man in the garden of the house nearby the cottage peers over the hedge at Bowen, Bowen stares back and the other man looks away. He turns back to see a man inside the house peering through a window in the door] 

  Terry Bowen : Come on, come on, open up!

  [the door opens and the man stands in the doorway] 

  Mr. King : Yes?

  Terry Bowen : Mr King?

  Mr. King : Yes?

  Terry Bowen : My name's Bowen. Terry Bowen.

  [Mr King doesn't answer. Bowen spells out his surname in a loud voice, because he thinks the old man is deaf and/or hard of hearing] 

  Terry Bowen : Bowen, B-O-W-E-N. I own this cottage.

  Mr. King : Oh, no, no. No, this cottage belongs to the farm.

  Terry Bowen : Not any more it doesn't. This is an order for you to vacate the property.

  Mr. King : I... I don't understand.

  Terry Bowen : You don't understand? Then you should've listened to the other men who came to see you, shouldn't you?

  [Mr King tries to shut the door, but Bowen puts his foot into the gap] 

  Terry Bowen : Listen, I want you out of here, double bloody quick!

  Mr. King : I've always lived here.

  Terry Bowen : Well, I'm sorry, Grandad, but when the law says you've got to go, you've got to go! This is a holiday cottage and it belongs to me. So out you go! On your bike or you're not going to like what happens to you, Grandad, got it?