Last Tango in Halifax (TV Series)

Episode #2.4 (2013)

Derek Jacobi: Alan

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Alan : [at a quiet restaurant]  Have I said too much?

  Celia : No, no.

  Alan : Have I upset you?

  Celia : Well, it's a shock, I suppose.

  Alan : You won't tell anyone?

  Celia : [shaking her head]  No.

  Alan : Not even Caroline?

  Celia : I don't tell her everything.

• Alan : What you thinking?

  Celia : I thought you'd had such a calm, uncomplicated life compared to me with Kenneth. I'm sorry you haven't.

  Alan : Yeah, and I've embroiled you in it now. Is that what you're thinking?

  Celia : No. No. I'm glad you can tell me things. Somebody with a good heart like you shouldn't have skeletons in their cupboard.

  Alan : Ah, it does still bother me. He were an alcoholic, more or less, he were handy with his fists, but he'd grown up in care. So I imagine it weren't entirely his fault that he turned out like he did.

  Celia : Happen he'd have died anyway.

  Alan : [sighs]  Yeah.

  Celia : Or had brain damage. Perhaps she did him a favour.

  Alan : If it was suicide.

  Celia : Was there still more to it than you've said.

  Alan : [shaking his head]  No, no, only that.

  Celia : Right, well, if that's what the coroner said.

• Alan : [sighs]  I'm wondering if we should get married again? No, properly. Proper big do, no expense spared. Invite everybody, everybody we've ever heard of, eh? Would you like to be my best man, Harry, if we did?

  Harry : I don't know. Might feel a bit... Not right now.

  Gillian : Oh, shut up, you nitwit, say yes.

  [turning to Alan] 

  Gillian : Er, assuming I'm invited. I assume I come under the umbrella of everybody you've ever heard of?