Screen One (TV Series)

Pat and Margaret (1994)

Duncan Preston: Jim

Quotes 

• [Jim is sitting in his car which has signs "JIM" and "MARGARET" at the top of the windscreen. Wistfully he removes the "MARGARET" sign. Margaret arrives. Jim's mother is watching from the garden gate] 

  Margaret : Jim, do you want to make it up or not?

  Jim's Mother : Now just a minute.

  Margaret : No conferring. If we're doing it, then we have to get a place, live together, none of this fannying about. We either go for it, or it's finito.

  Jim's Mother : There'll be no living together if I have anything to do with it.

  Jim : [to his mother]  You *don't* have anything to do with it. So button up or ship out. It's your fault tha never learned me to read and I could never get a qualification.

  Jim : [to Margaret]  Yes. You're on, Margaret. I've loved you since the first minute you gave me extra gravy. You've given me care. And comfort. And a wonderful sex life. Come here.

  [they hug] 

  Jim's Mother : A sex life? You've had a sex life? *Where* have you had it?

  Jim : On your bed.

  Jim's Mother : [horrified]  Not on the eiderdown?