Edge of Darkness

Ronald 'Ron' Craven:
They all drowned.

Emma Craven:
I know. I was there.

Ronald 'Ron' Craven:
Why didn't you tell me?

Emma Craven:
Dad... you were on their side

Ronald 'Ron' Craven:
No!

Emma Craven:
Millions of years ago when the Earth was cold, it looked like life on the planet would cease to exist. But black flowers began to grow, multiplying across the landscape until the entire surface was covered in blooms. Slowly, the blackness of the flowers sucked in the heat of the sun and life began to evolve again. That is the power of Gaia. The planet will protect itself. If man is the enemy, it will destroy him.

Ronald Craven:
[referring to Darius Jedburgh] . A man of few words.

Clemmy:
When he's sober.

McCroon:
She was coming at me like a goal keeper!

Ross:
How's the patient?

Doctor:
Very interesting. He has what Primitives call a "bush soul".

Harcourt:
Women, even dead, Pendleton, would not like to be known as "girls".

Darius Jedburgh:
John, did you tape the "Come Dancing" finals?

Ronald Craven:
How was El Salvador?

Darius Jedburgh:
Well, I spent the whole time playing poker with gangsters. One long round of gold chains and designer jeans.

Ronald Craven:
How was the golf?

Darius Jedburgh:
Well, bodies kept turning up in the bunkers, and you needed air support to play out of the rough. Kinda puts you off your game.

Darius Jedburgh:
[discussing Northmoor with Craven] What do you think is gonna be waiting for you down there? Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?

Ronald Craven:
[At Barbican Theatre] What's it about?

Clemmy:
Incest.

Schumaker:
You play this game?

Darius Jedburgh:
I'm a golfer Schumaker. I happen to believe the game is sanctified. I cannot in my wildest imagination see the same thing being said for softball. Can you?

Schumaker:
I never gave it much thought...

Darius Jedburgh:
That's the story of your life, Schumaker. The story of your life.

Darius Jedburgh:
'Khe San' died. Peacefully in bed. Of gunshot wounds.

Ronald Craven:
She kept asking me to be strong, like a tree.

Darius Jedburgh:
[watching "Come Dancing" on TV] Nobody dances like the British! They deserved the Falklands.

Craven:
How was El Salvador?

Jedburgh:
Well, I spent the whole time playing poker with gangsters. One long round of gold chains and designer jeans.

Craven:
How was the golf?

Jedburgh:
Well, bodies kept turning up in the bunkers, and you need air support to play out of the rough. Kinda puts you off your game.

Jedburgh:
[watching "Come Dancing" on TV] Nobody dances like the British! They deserved the Falklands!

Guy Pendleton:
[Harcourt and Pendleton watched, on a remote terminal, Craven breaking into MI5 computer records the previous night] We tried to ring you last night. You were out.

Craven:
I went to the theatre.

Guy Pendleton:
Harcourt and I stayed home and watched the telly.

Darius Jedburgh:
I'm a golfer Schumaker. I happen to believe the game is sanctified. I cannot in my wildest imagination see the same thing being said for softball. Can you?

Pendleton:
[Harcourt and Pendleton watched, on a remote terminal, Craven breaking into MI5 computer records the previous night] We tried to ring you last night. You were out.

Ronald Craven:
I went to the theatre.

Pendleton:
Harcourt and I stayed home and watched the telly.

Darius Jedburgh:
People who mess with plutonium are terrorists.

Darius Jedburgh:
People who put trees and flowers before people, they're beyond reasoning with. You can never appeal to their humanity, because they don't believe in humanity, except as a form of moral pollution.

Ronald Craven:
My daughter never expressed such a view.

Darius Jedburgh:
She probably did, Craven, a dozen times a day, but you never noticed it.

Harcourt:
There's no need to play the Texan, Jedburgh, we can take it as read.

Harcourt:
We're not funded by the M.O.D., but by the Prime Minister's Office.

Pendleton:
And the Arts Council...

Harcourt:
Mr Pendleton has us down as a band of strolling players.

Pendleton:
And the Commonwealth?

Harcourt:
As professional historians...

Pendleton:
And the G.L.C.? [Greater London Council]

Harcourt:
A lesbian co-operative.

Darius Jedburgh:
Frick and frack!

Darius Jedburgh:
Well, the Met picked him up, then they dropped him again... from the sixth floor.

Grogan:
I don't believe in the conspiracy theory of history.

Darius Jedburgh:
You're stirring up the natives. You're making them restless. We have our own interests on this island. Quite apart from the airbases, there's the golf courses.

Grogan:
The golf courses?

Ronald Craven:
A man of few words.

Clemmy:
When he's sober...

Emma Craven:
[last words to father] Don't... tell...

Emma Craven:
Did you catch any of the speeches?

Ronald Craven:
I got stuck in a crowd of your sisters; it was difficult to concentrate.

Emma Craven:
[to Ronald] Who's going to look after you when I'm gone?

James Godbolt:
Ronnie has a certain tact... a rare trait in a Yorkshireman.

Ross:
Who the hell is Pendleton?

Young Emma:
What's a Communist?

Ronald Craven:
Someone who doesn't like the Queen.

Emma Craven:
[to left wing meeting] Due to the latest crisis in Capitalism, the Corporation's running a reduced bus service.

Michael Meacher:
Students contribute, but not to the kind of nuclear state that they want. But what do they face you with? With closure! They say it's in the name of economy, but I say look behind. Look at the mentality behind it, which is so suspect. It is a siege mentality. We see ministers winding up the drawbridge on the open society, and threatening a rerun, dare I say it, of the Middle Ages! I say this too, that I believe that there are new forces, new loyalties, new ideas, not yet articulated, which may yet come to our rescue... but I say this - in whatever form these new forces may manifest themselves, they will come from you, the despised students of humanities!

Clemmy:
[realizing Craven is fatally ill] You can't die alone.

Craven:
We all do, you know.

Pendleton:
They found the hot cell. It had been sealed off. Apparently there'd been some sort of explosion resulting in massive radioactivity. Anyway Jedbugh went and located the plutonium, and carried it out in a Harrods shopping bag.

Harcourt:
Has Craven got any idea where Jedburgh went?

Pendleton:
He said his last words were something about meeting "Moriarty at the falls".

Harcourt:
If there's an Irish component to this I shall retire.

Mrs Girvan:
You forgot your sandwich again today, Mr "Jedborough".

Darius Jedburgh:
Mrs Girvan, mince between two slices of white bread is not my idea of lunch. Hell, I'd rather eat the damned Bible.

Mrs Girvan:
[indignant] Mr "Jedborough"!

Darius Jedburgh:
[walking up stairs] "JedBURG"!

Grogan:
When we unlock a chain reaction, the energy that is compressed in it was put there in the first ten seconds of the Universe's existence. That is an awesome thing, ladies and gentlemen. We are tapping into the very source of God's creation.

Darius Jedburgh:
$500,000 million for a defense system for Washington DC seems a bit pricey to me, but then again, I don't live there.

Darius Jedburgh:
Read between the lines of Jerry Grogan's speech. You will find not the Frontiersman, but the Teutonic Knight.

Darius Jedburgh:
[to NATO conference] This future nuclear state will be an absolute state, whose authority will derive not from the people but from the possession of plutonium. And just to make sure we all know what we're talking about her, I brought some of the stuff along with me today. [mixed reaction from audience as he pulls out briefcase]

Darius Jedburgh:
[holding up plutonium] A lethal dose to anyone within ten yards. Get it while it's hot!

Darius Jedburgh:
[shouts at empty conference room] Hey what's the matter? Don't y'all wanna be part of the New Age of plutonium lunacy?

Darius Jedburgh:
Honor went out the window the day they invented that stuff. [i.e. plutonium]

Craven:
It seems rather hard on the rest of Scotland.

Darius Jedburgh:
Yeah, that's what I thought too. Especially the golf courses. So I decided against it.

Darius Jedburgh:
Man will always win against nature.

Harcourt:
Ah yes, Grogan was there, watching the proceedings like some twentieth century vampire.

Darius Jedburgh:
That's the problem with plutonium, Craven; it's limited in its application. It's not user-friendly. But as a vehicle for regaining one's self-respect, oh, it's got a lot going for it! Damn right I turned it into a bomb!

Darius Jedburgh:
That's the problem with plutonium, Craven; it's limited in its application. It's not user-friendly. But as a vehicle for regaining one's self-respect, oh, it's got a lot going for it. Damn right I turned it into a bomb.

Guy Pendleton:
They found the hot cell. It had been sealed off. Apparently there'd been some sort of explosion resulting in massive radioactivity. Anyway Jedbugh went and located the plutonium, and carried it out in a Harrods shopping bag.

Henry Harcourt:
Has Craven got any idea where Jedburgh went?

Guy Pendleton:
He said his last words were something about meeting "Moriarty at the falls".

Henry Harcourt:
If there's an Irish component to this I shall retire.

Darius Jedburgh:
Because that's the problem with plutonium, Craven. It's limited in its application. It's not user-friendly, but as a vehicle for regaining one's self-respect, it's got a log going for it.

Ronald Craven:
What happened to the Merc?

Pendleton:
We only use it on posh occasions, we try to save on fuel.

Pendleton:
I myself favour an Irish education. Anyone who has encountered the Book of Kells cannot but be impressed by the labyrinthine coils of the Celtic imagination.

Harcourt:
[looking at his secretary Ellen] Bizarre, I know, but not the sort who posts things to "the Guardian".

Harcourt:
You agree with her views?

Ronald Craven:
No... but I enjoyed the conversations.

Harcourt:
We have no intention of putting you in the picture - that's what we're paid for.

Darius Jedburgh:
It's past Pendleton's bed time. You know he returns every night to the Abbey, where they lock him up in one of those tombs? They only let him out when the Kingdom is threatened.

Darius Jedburgh:
You ever been to Dallas, Craven?

Ronald Craven:
No sir.

Darius Jedburgh:
It's where we shoot our Presidents! The Jews have their Calvary, but we got Dealey Plaza.

Darius Jedburgh:
They may cut records in London, but we cut discs in Texas! Cheers!

Ronald Craven:
White Rolls and Stetsons?

Darius Jedburgh:
We're just blending in with the surroundings, son.

Darius Jedburgh:
I really believe that God's a golfer. Does that upset you Craven?

Darius Jedburgh:
When I think of St Andrews, Carnoustie and Leith, I begin to realise that it's more than just a coincidence that Divine Providence has brought forth oil from out of the depths of the North Sea; that oil will help save the golf courses of Scotland.

Darius Jedburgh:
Imagine what would happen to the golf courses of this country, if a Communist government ever got in power...

Darius Jedburgh:
Do you have any experience with Communists here, Craven?

Ronald Craven:
No sir.

Darius Jedburgh:
It's an anal disease. Marx had trouble with his bowels.

Guy Pendleton:
I myself favour an Irish education. Anyone who has encountered the Book of Kells cannot but be impressed by the labyrinthine coils of the Celtic imagination.

Henry Harcourt:
[looking at Ellen, his secretary who has pink dyed hair] Bizarre, I know, but not the sort who posts things to "the Guardian".

Darius Jedburgh:
This is a Doomsday equivalent of Harrods!

Darius Jedburgh:
If I make it, I'll see you in Scotland.

Ronald Craven:
Where?

Darius Jedburgh:
You're the detective - find me!

Polly Pelham:
Does that mean you're in intelligence?

Harcourt:
No, Ma'am, I'm a lawyer.

Darius Jedburgh:
You're a driven man, aren't you Craven? Here we are, on the floor of Plato's cave, with food from Harrods, a whole hillside of wine, and all you think about is "let's get going"?

Ronald Craven:
Why do you hate Grogan so much?

Darius Jedburgh:
Because of who he is.

Ronald Craven:
And who is he?

Darius Jedburgh:
He's part of the Dark Forces who would rule this planet.

Ronald Craven:
You believe in all that stuff?

Darius Jedburgh:
Yeah, sure.