No Night Is Too Long2002

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
[Talking to Tim in his office]... So how can I help you? Have you decided to take up paleontology?

Tim Cornish:
Why were you spying me the other night?

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
I wasn't.

Tim Cornish:
Yes you were. You were standing at the window and you were watching me with my girlfriend.

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
Your girlfriend?

Tim Cornish:
One of them, yeah.

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
Why how many have you got?

Tim Cornish:
Why did you do that?

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
...Why did you follow me into the lift?

Tim Cornish:
[sighs, sits on Ivo's desk and toys with a fossil] Is this the kind of thing that you study?

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
Well done. [Takes the fossil from Tim] That's about two hundred and fifty million years old.

Tim Cornish:
Where did you get it?

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
Alaska.

Tim Cornish:
Wow, Alaska. What were you doing there?

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
Lecturing. They have cruises there for people who are interested in that sort of thing. [Shares a gaze with Tim]... Anyway. I've got a stack of work, so if there's nothing I can do for you...

Tim Cornish:
...Right. Well, I'll be off then.

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
Yeah...

Tim Cornish:
[Awkward pause]... Yeah. [Turns to leave]

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
By the way...

Tim Cornish:
What?

Dr. Ivo Steadman:
...Happy Christmas. [Smirks]