Back Home (2001 TV Movie)

Sarah Lancashire: Peggy Dickinson

Quotes 

• [Roger has just hit Peggy across the face after she has intervened to prevent him hitting Rusty with a belt] 

  Roger Dickinson : [seething with anger]  I warned you to stay out of it.

  Peggy Dickinson : Yes, and now I'm warning you. If you ever - ever - lay so much as a finger on me or my children again, I will come after you. As God is my witness, I will kill you with my own bare hands. Do you hear me? I will *kill* you!

  Roger Dickinson : [sheepishly]  I'm sorry. I lost my temper.

• [Peggy announces that she is leaving Roger and taking the children with her to Devon] 

  Peggy Dickinson : If you were any kind of a husband, you'd come with us. And if you were any kind of a man, I'd want you to.

• Mrs. Dickinson : [outraged at the sound of Peggy and Roger arguing]  What on earth's going on?

  Peggy Dickinson : We're leaving. Not that it's any of *your* business.

  Mrs. Dickinson : [taunting Peggy]  So, off back to Devon, are we? I'd have thought that most of the Americans would have gone back home by now. I never even *looked* at another man after my Alfred was shot down.

  Peggy Dickinson : I don't think your Alfred *was* shot down, at all. I reckon he crashed that plane rather than come home to you.

• [to Roger and Mrs Dickinson, as she is leaving Roger] 

  Peggy Dickinson : You deserve each other, d'you know that? As my mother used to say: "leastways it saves you spoiling *two* homes".