The Final Cut (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.3 (1995)

Ian Richardson: Francis Urquhart

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• Francis Urquhart : 175 of my honourable colleagues firmly intend to vote for me, 123 are almost certainly against me. How dare they! They owe me everything. Half of them wouldn't even have jobs let alone seats in Parliament. As if I hadn't won three elections in a row and kept their noses in the gravy and these stuffed suits, these lumps of lobby fodder dare to raise themselves against me?

• Francis Urquhart : Claire Carlsen implied that what we need now is a miracle as if she thought me capable of splitting Earth's crust. The Earth's crust...

  Elizabeth Urquhart : Francis?

  Francis Urquhart : Suppose we leak information to the Greeks and the French that they have been cynically conned. There are massive oil deposits off the coast of Cyprus. The British and the Turks have known it all along and are now exploiting it to enrich themselves.

  Elizabeth Urquhart : No, it's too dangerous.

  Francis Urquhart : Thus provoking an international incident. A small war perhaps! To which we can react with moral outrage, uniting the country behind a strong Prime Minister.

  Elizabeth Urquhart : But we couldn't control the outcome. We'd risk losing everything.

  Francis Urquhart : Better to do that than to slink away. One way or the other I'll be remembered. This could be our Falklands, Elizabeth.