Turks & Caicos

[first lines]

Curtis Pelissier:
OK, here we are.

Melanie Fall:
Well, what a great evening. Thank you.

Curtis Pelissier:
If you want, I could come in, pour you a drink.

Melanie Fall:
Tell you the problem, I'm not thirsty. But I had a great time. Thank you.

Curtis Pelissier:
Good night.

Natalie Helier:
Don't you have a car?

Johnny Worricker:
I left it in Cambridge.

Gary Bethwaite:
Dido is a difficult man, going through a difficult time.

Johnny Worricker:
What sort of time?

Gary Bethwaite:
Oh, the recession.

Johnny Worricker:
Ah, the recession, I see. No recession and he would have been pleasanter, would he?

Johnny Worricker:
Believe it or not, it's quite unusual to be approached by someone who claims to know you when they don't. That's why I went; I was intrigued; if I'd known one of the party was going to be killed, I wouldn't have gone.

Jim Carroll:
I dare say neither would he.

Jim Carroll:
In a few days there's going to be this international colloquium. And this place'll be crawling with rich and powerful people, the world's leading business people and politicians.

Johnny Worricker:
What, four days in the sun and they conclude that global recovery depends on their making more money?

Curtis Pelissier:
Nowadays, people will go anywhere to avoid paying tax. A quick visit to Lichtenstein, Monaco, maybe Jersey; empty the vaults of private wealth, and you could write off the world's debt. In a day, in an hour, in a minute. Three-quarters of the world's cash is hidden away in places exactly like this.

Johnny Worricker:
Whatever happened to the idea of shame?

Curtis Pelissier:
Shame... went the way of honour. Didn't it?

Curtis Pelissier:
It's been a fascinating few years, you could say, since 9-11. You know how many Americans now work in intelligence?

Johnny Worricker:
I don't know.

Curtis Pelissier:
Over two hundred thousand, in sixteen different agencies, with thirty thousand private contractors in a hundred and seventy countries, at a grand cost to the taxpayer of seventy-five *billion* dollars a year, and they still call it the intelligence community! I don't think so.

Margot Tyrrell:
I've been trying to understand the pattern.

Stirling Rogers:
Pattern?

Margot Tyrrell:
Pattern of what businesses we buy, and why we buy them.

Stirling Rogers:
Well, you know this stuff. Any business that presents a market opportunity.

Margot Tyrrell:
Yeah, but in practice it's not quite as simple as that, is it?

Stirling Rogers:
There's got to be some ethical dimension. I wouldn't buy a brothel because I thought the whores could do more tricks to the hour.

Melanie Fall:
[about her childhood] I was pretty. My father's friends liked to be with me. Dad liked it too. You understand what I'm saying?

Jim Carroll:
Do you understand the constitution of these islands? Did you know that Turks and Caicos is a Crown protectorate?

Johnny Worricker:
I think I do, yes.

Jim Carroll:
And the currency is American but the jurisdiction is British. We trade in the dollar and kneel to the Crown.

Johnny Worricker:
Yeah, what you might call the worst of both worlds.

Johnny Worricker:
You haven't met. This is my friend, Margot Tyrrell.

Margot Tyrrell:
Hello.

Johnny Worricker:
This is Jim Carroll. He's a policeman.

Jim Carroll:
Show me your passport. [reads from the passport] "Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of Her Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely, without hindrance, and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary." These *are* British islands. And you're holding British passports. You're free to go.

[last lines]

Curtis Pelissier:
Another?

Frank Church:
Thank you.

Curtis Pelissier:
[to the bartender] Two more.

Frank Church:
Well?