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red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 36m

REBECCA: It was a pleasure to meet you, Mr Schill.
CLIVE: You too Rebecca. I look forward to being served by you in five years at the Overhead all night pharmacy or whatever is left of this company when you're finished with it. That's your future. But hey, at least you'll have got there first.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 1h

FRANCESCA: Okay. Okay. Well… well smart people, let's brainstorm, er… how are we going to manage this? How are we going to manage this?
REBECCA: I know what to do.
FRANCESCA: Rebec-
A GUNSHOT. FRAN FALLS TO THE FLOOR

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 1h

CLIVE: Away in a Gordon, a dick on his head, the little lord Gordon is such a dickhead, I'll be coming in January to see how you are, if you've messed up anything I'll hit you with my car. I'll actually be coming in a helicopter though. A hel-ee-cop-tahh.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 2h

GORDON: (CLOSE) Look Warren. If they're sending the butter-wouldn't-melt 'uh, um, uh' new boy looking for Red Valley, it'll be for a reason. Not a happy touchy-feely smiley reason, a creepy, suspicious, nasty one. Trust me.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 2h

GORDON PULLS CLOSER.
GORDON: We could try. We could try and make a run for it.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 3h

WARREN: Gordon Porlock, secret warlock!

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 4h

GORDON: Red Valley was a smallholding next to a very small mountain called Beinn Bagg. Affectionately known as Bean Bag. Only, no one's got any affection for it, so we just called it Ball Bag.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 4h

PAMELA: Why are you smiling like that?
CLIVE: Just thinking about the future.
PAMELA: I'll drink to that.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 5h

CLIVE: Okay. You're going to start telling me what I'd like to know. Or I'll do nasty things. I'll tie Porlock to the back of his shitheap car, put a brick on the accelerator and let it off into the mountains until there's nothing left but a stump.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 5h

WARREN: This one’s not going to fit in my Dictaphone.
GORDON: No, it won't Mr Godby, but luckily you're sitting in a 1998 Vauxhall Astra. What it lacks in air conditioning it makes up for in a top-notch cassette player.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 6h

GORDON: It kind of winds down from there.
WARREN GETS OUT OF HIS SEAT AND LEAVES THE CAR, SLAMMING THE DOOR BEHIND HIM.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 6h

WARREN: You control me by getting these rises out of me, you... you stop me from thinking clearly, I need to stop... I need to gather myself—

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 7h

DOUG: Welcome to Overhead. Keep digging.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 8h

AUBREY: Okay. Tunnel door, midnight. You and Warren, don't worry about anything else. I'll take care of it.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 8h

GORDON: And I went to my new bedroom and had a panic attack. So... er, yeah... there we go! A little taste of life at Red Valley.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 9h

CLIVE: The definitive luxury travel slash end of life care slash hypersleep experience for rich old white people who expect to rule the world forever. Because you know what that room behind us is full of?
PAMELA: Rich old white people who expect to rule the world forever.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 9h

FRONT OF HOUSE: Hello sir, do you have a booking?
CLIVE: Yep, I'm right over there with the electric blue power suit and boring drinks choices.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 10h

WARREN PUTS IN THE TAPE. IMMEDIATELY AN EAR-BLEEDING METAL TRACK PLAYS.

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red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 10h

FRANCESCA: You're going to live or die on the Aloha Eternity, Clive.
CLIVE: In many ways that is kind of the point.

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red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 11h

AUBREY: I'm tired of looking to Ben for...what? Protection? Reassurance? He couldn't protect me from a malicious bag of crisps.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 12h

WARREN: You control me by getting these rises out of me, you... you stop me from thinking clearly, I need to stop... I need to gather myself—

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red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 12h

WARREN: Um. This is just a bunch of adverts for tortoises.
GORDON: (CLOSE) I know. I'm buying a tortoise.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 13h

GRACE TAKES WARREN'S HAND AND SHAKES IT HARD, AND CLAPS ANOTHER HAND ON WARREN'S SHOULDER.
GRACE: You look great.
WARREN: So do you. How have you got better looking?

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 13h

AUBREY: Okay. Tunnel door, midnight. You and Warren, don't worry about anything else. I'll take care of it.

red valley quote bot @redvalquotes.bsky.social · 14h

WARREN: Right now, I’m… I'm this version of Warren Godby, whoever and whenever he is. Next time, I might be different. Or the time after that, or the time after that.