The Reckoning (TV Series)

Episode #1.4 (2023)

Steve Coogan: Jimmy Savile

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• Dan Davies : When I sit and I go through everything you've written or said, it's like you're constantly giving hints that there's a dark side.

  Jimmy Savile : Please elaborate.

  Dan Davies : You did a game show with David Frost, wearing a sweatshirt with "I'm an animal" on the front, and when he asked you why, you said "to give victims fair warning". You spoke about being feared in every girls' school in Britain, and about using wrestling holds on girls in the backs of cars. And when Frost asked you what you were going to do next, you replied "Anyone I can lay my hands on". You were basically advertising to the world that you were a sexual predator. I mean, the truth is pretty well staring us in the face if only we'd look.

  Jimmy Savile : What's the point of committing the perfect crime if nobody knows you've done it?

  Dan Davies : So, what, you're *admitting* to being a predator?

  Jimmy Savile : I'm admitting nowt. Here we are in the ring, and I'm looking at a man who has not landed a single punch.

  Dan Davies : And I'm looking at a man who, behind the bullshit, is terrified of what's to come.