When Louis Met... The Hamiltons2001

[the charges against the Hamiltons have been dropped and the media have gone away. Louis has taken them out to dinner to mark the last night of filming the documentary. But now they're talking about filing various lawsuits. Louis thinks they should just put the whole thing behind them]

Christine Hamilton:
I mean, I know I'm arguing against myself, because right now I would just like to walk out of that door and just disappear into oblivion... We have now got the power to create interest in the fightback and also to try and generate interest in the various organisations who are fighting for people who have been accused wrongfully of various crimes. And you can't just walk away from that.

Louis Theroux:
It sounds a teeny bit... the word you used against Martin Bell...

Christine Hamilton:
Sounds sanctimonious, I suppose.

Louis Theroux:
Yeah, sounds a bit sanctimonious.

Christine Hamilton:
I knew you were going to say sanctimonious. Well, you believe all the cuttings.

[she gets up and leaves the table]

Christine Hamilton:
[to Neil] Come on, let's go.

Neil Hamilton:
What do you mean, go? We haven't had our pudding.

Louis Theroux:
Is she walking out?

Neil Hamilton:
I think she's going to get some more bread.

[Christine returns to the table]

Christine Hamilton:
If the Hamiltons are demanding money to appear on television, that's par for the course and everybody believes that, but if the Hamiltons are actually saying that they want to do something that's worthwhile and good, you tell me that's sanctimonious - Well, thank you, Louis! You have completely missed the point of the last whatever minutes of conversation. Because we are in the limelight, because this whole business has been hugely escalated by the press cos there's nothing else going on in August, it is precisely because we're in the limelight that...

Neil Hamilton:
[interrupting] Macedonia is totally irrelevant...

Christine Hamilton:
[tries to put her hand over Neil's mouth to shut him up] It's because we realise...

Neil Hamilton:
No, but that's the judgment of news editors all over the place...

[Christine bangs the table and turns away in frustration. Neil makes a silly sheepish face]

Christine Hamilton:
I was making a point and you completely cocked it up. So... No, I give up.

Neil Hamilton:
No, you don't.

Christine Hamilton:
I do, cos I've forgotten the thread.

Neil Hamilton:
You're carrying on, that's an order. Das ist ein befehl!