Babylon (TV Mini Series)

Hackney Wick (2014)

Bertie Carvel: Finn Kirkwood

Quotes 

• Tom Oliver : Roberts was heavily tipped in '06, but the feeling was he was a bit of a fart in the bath, politically speaking.

  Finn : Forget Roberts, forget Collins. Look at all these bald, boring, white bastards. It's like staring into the crowd at a fucking Genesis concert.

  [to Charles] 

  Finn : You're the alternative, and we shouldn't be afraid to lean into that.

  Charles Inglis : Do you know what this force was like 30 years ago? It wasn't very friendly towards black people. I mean, the lads on the van were all right, if you could take a joke. But it wasn't all that easy to get promotion. It was harder for me. But, yeah, things change. Except, now people look at me and they say, Oh, has he had a few favors? Is he really all that? And I don't talk about that. No, I don't even mention that, because people don't need much to have you down as chippy, you see, or difficult. So, I don't give them the chance. So, if you think that after swallowing all that, I'm going to let one single shitbag say I got this job through anything other than sweat, shoe-leather, and ability then, with all due respect, you can fuck right off.