The Newsreader (TV Series)
No More Lies (2021)
Stephen Peacocke: Rob Rickards
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Quotes
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Dennis : Helen chased down an interview.
Rob Rickards : [reading the runsheet] An AIDS patient on the desk?
Dennis : Yes.
Rob Rickards : Well, Helen could do it alone, couldn't she?
Dennis : Well, mate, how do you think that's gonna work, Rob? We're gonna cut to the desk and you're just not there?
Rob Rickards : Yeah.
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Rob Rickards : [whispering] I'm gathering you didn't tell your family.
Noelene : I'm gathering you did!
Rob Rickards : Well, anyway, I'm hearing you can come back in on Monday.
Noelene : What?
Rob Rickards : Yeah, well, you know bloody Lindsay. He blows a gasket and then a day later he's forgotten all about it.
Noelene : Did you say something?
Rob Rickards : Well, I didn't say anything a halfway decent person wouldn't have said. I mean, you're the best one there, Noels.
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Rob Rickards : Who's your pick for this Saturday? Demons or Swans?
[Noelene looks around]
Rob Rickards : What? I thought you wanted a bit of office footy chat.
Noelene : I do, but I don't want anyone to know you're teaching me.
Rob Rickards : Why? What, so I'm banned from talking about the footy with you?
Noelene : In here, yes.
Rob Rickards : Everyone else can, but not me?
Noelene : Until further notice.
Rob Rickards : Well, we allowed to chat about other topics?
Noelene : Do you have other topics?
Rob Rickards : [pauses] Cricket.
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[as Noelene's family speaks over one another in Korean]
Rob Rickards : I learned a bit of French at school, but no Korean, I'm afraid.
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Rob Rickards : They're throwing eggs out there now!
Lindsay Cunningham : What?
Rob Rickards : Shit, they've egged my car. That happen to anyone else? Do those protesters have AIDS? I wonder if there was AIDS in what they threw.
Helen Norville : You think they put HIV-positive blood into an egg?
Rob Rickards : Yes.
Lindsay Cunningham : Jesus, come on, everybody!