Chef!, Series One (1993)

Gareth:
This is personal. I want to be rude, I'm hoping to cause offence! I have a life long abhorrence to violence inflicted on women, but I am giving urgent consideration to an exception in your case.

Mrs Courtney:
[shocked] Mr Blackstock!

Gareth:
I have just seen your bill! It is for the sort of money which rarely changes hands without the aid of a gun, and a getaway car! There are names at Lloyds, sitting alone in darkened rooms with revolvers who owe less than this! It's a disgrace! You're charging me so much money! You can afford to eat in my restaurant! I don't know why you don't just take up drug trafficking and have done.

Mrs Courtney:
Now look...

Gareth:
It would mean a sharp drop in your income, granted.

Mrs Courtney:
Chef, you've never complained before?

Gareth:
This isn't a bill. This is grievous bodily invoicing! I trusted you, Mrs Courtney. "Bring me the best," I said, "and I will pay you what is fair!"

Mrs Courtney:
Well, yes.

Gareth:
And you betrayed my trust. And you have done that which I dread most in all the world.

Mrs Courtney:
What's that?

Gareth:
You have proved my wife right!