The Child in Time (2017 TV Movie)
Benedict Cumberbatch: Stephen Lewis
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Quotes
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Male Neighbour : Oh, I hope you don't mind me saying, but you're telling the world you're not at home. Your note. People see your note and they'll know you're out.
Stephen Lewis : People?
Male Neighbour : Well, I'm just saying. Why advertise you're out?
Stephen Lewis : Fucking because. Dick.
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[last lines]
Stephen Lewis : Keep breathing.
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Stephen Lewis : [speaking on a walkie-talkie] Dad to Kate. Dad to Kate. We just wanted to tell you that we love you. Very much. And we miss you. And that we hope to see you very, very soon. Lots of hugs and games, over. Take your time. We'll be here.
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Julie : Are you still writing?
Stephen Lewis : Yeah. I'm writing a story about a boy who wants to become a fish.
Julie : Why does he want to become a fish?
Stephen Lewis : I can't tell you that. It's top, top secret.
Julie : Why not a dog?
Stephen Lewis : That's been done before. Dogs sniff other dog's balls, arses... who'd wanna do that?
Julie : It's gross. Kids would love it.
Stephen Lewis : Yeah, yeah they would.
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Julie : You took your time, didn't you? I was about to send out a search party.
Julie : [sees that Kate is missing]
Julie : Where is she?
Stephen Lewis : [tearfully] She was there. She was there.
Julie : Stephen, where is she?
Stephen Lewis : She was just there, she was right there!
Julie : What do you mean? Where is she?
Stephen Lewis : I don't know.
Julie : Where is she? Where is she now?
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Julie : [looks at a "missing" poster of Kate] She's not a cat.
Stephen Lewis : I know she's not a fucking cat. I'm trying to find her.
Julie : Well you lost her. I didn't mean that.
Stephen Lewis : Well I'll just sit on my arse and watch TV as well.
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Charles : [On his behaviour] I'm searching for a child. He wasn't taken. He was forbidden. He was denied and... I need to find him. You understand that, don't you?
Stephen Lewis : [calm anger] I don't have a fucking clue what you're on about.
Charles : You're angry with me.
Stephen Lewis : Can you even hear yourself, sitting there like that with your bottle of piss, talking about searching for "a child"?
Charles : Are you disgusted by me?
Stephen Lewis : Yeah. I'm disgusted, I'm disappointed, I'm disillusioned. Every dis under the sun.
Charles : Why?
Stephen Lewis : Why do you think? You need a shave, Charles. You have a man's stubble. Look down the front of your pants and find you have a hairy pair of bollocks.
Charles : Yeah well, that is where you're wrong so...
[blows a raspberry and runs off]
Stephen Lewis : Where are you going, now?
Charles : Climb a tree!
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Charles : Do you think you'll ever find Kate?
Stephen Lewis : I... I will. I'll never believe that I'll never find her, so...
Charles : She'll have grown.
Stephen Lewis : Yes.
Charles : If you find her, ten years from now, she'd be a young woman, almost.
Stephen Lewis : Yes, but she'll still be Kate. She'll still be my little girl.
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Stephen Lewis : What is it you want? You want me to give up?
Julie : Yes. I want you to give up. Because you always let me down. You never bring her home. And you're drinking too much.
Stephen Lewis : I'm supposed to drink too much.
Julie : [crying] I can't live here any more!
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Julie : How certain are you that she's alive?
Stephen Lewis : I know that if she wasn't, I'd feel it.
