Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series)

Rumpole's Last Case (1987)

Patricia Hodge: Phyllida Erskine-Brown

Quotes 

• Horace Rumpole : [Looking at a wine label and addressing Hearthstoke with disdain]  Oh, dear! "Méthode Champenoise!" You disappoint me, Hearthrug!

  Phyllida 'Portia' Erskine-Brown : Actually, Charles, it's quite delicious.

  Horace Rumpole : What? Grape juice and gas?

  [With sarcasm] 

  Horace Rumpole : Wait for the headache!

• Phyllida 'Portia' Erskine-Brown : [to Cyril, her client]  Oh, you know Rumpole's advising Dennis. "Don't let us cut each other's throats, old darling. Honour among thieves." All that sort of nonsense.

  Cyril Timson : What are you sayin'?

  Phyllida 'Portia' Erskine-Brown : Well, you are a thief, Mr. Timson!

  Cyril Timson : That is very true.

  Phyllida 'Portia' Erskine-Brown : But you aren't a gunman!

  Cyril Timson : On my baby's head I'm not!

  Claude Erskine-Brown : How old's your baby?

  Cyril Timson : Thirty-one - in window cleanin'.