Casualty1986

[It is Ruth's first day as clinical standards officer. Her staff are playing pranks on her because they do not respect her after she moved Charlie out of the ED to the psychiatric ward because he knows that her husband is gay]

Charlie Fairhead:
Ruth, why don't you just tell the truth?

Ruth Winters:
Scuse me?

Charlie Fairhead:
You didn't dump me because of efficiency or budgets, but because I know something.

Ruth Winters:
[unconvincingly] I've no idea what you're talking about.

Charlie Fairhead:
I'm right, aren't I? You find it very uncomfortable working with me because of what I know.

[Ruth tries to barge past Charlie]

Ruth Winters:
You're in my way.

Charlie Fairhead:
Exactly. I've worked in this ED for more years than I care to remember, and one of the principles that I've always stood by is that you do not gossip about your colleagues or your colleagues' partners.

Ruth Winters:
Oh well that's funny because Staff Nurse Durrani just gave me a very strange look and asked me how I was, so she has clearly heard something.

Charlie Fairhead:
[shouts] She didn't hear it from *me*!

Charlie Fairhead:
What exactly do you want? You're obviously not out to make friends, so it must be power. Let me tell you something about power. True power does not come from bullying people. True power comes from people *wanting* to do things for you.

Ruth Winters:
Oh, and you'd know about that, would you?

Charlie Fairhead:
Yes, actually, I think I would.

Ruth Winters:
Not that it is any of your business, but my only ambition is to make this ED the best in the country. In return, I would like the respect that I deserve.

Charlie Fairhead:
[sarcastically] You've certainly got that.

[Ruth think for a minute, works out Charlie's hidden meaning that she's getting very little respect because that is all she deserves, and walks off]