The Tunnel (TV Series)
Episode #1.6 (2013)
Clémence Poésy: Elise Wassermann
Quotes
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Elise Wassermann : [Karl presses building buzzer] Yes?
Karl Roebuck : Karl.
Elise Wassermann : Who?
Karl Roebuck : Karl! Sensitive Karl. The sporty intellectual.
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Karl Roebuck : [Elise and Karl are in the car. Elise is driving] You can't do that.
Elise Wassermann : Do what?
Karl Roebuck : Whatever it was you were doing together. What was it you were doing together?
[Elise looks at him, bewildered]
Karl Roebuck : Don't answer that.
Elise Wassermann : What are you trying to ask me?
Karl Roebuck : Did you have sex with my son?
Elise Wassermann : [Looking at Karl, perplexed] He's eighteen.
Karl Roebuck : I know!
Elise Wassermann : He's entitled to a private life.
Karl Roebuck : That's the sort of thing that people who don't have kids say.
[pauses]
Karl Roebuck : He's entitled to try and keep things from his parents is what he's entitled to do, and on this occasion he didn't manage it.
[Louder]
Karl Roebuck : Did you have sex with my son?
Elise Wassermann : Am *I* entitled to a private life?
Karl Roebuck : [Louder still] Did you have sex with my son?
Elise Wassermann : [Looks at him for three seconds with kindness before answering] No.
Karl Roebuck : [Looks relieved. Pauses, then speaks softly] Right.
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Elise Wassermann : I need everything you found on Mehdi Cherfi.
Cécile Cabrillac : He died last year.
Elise Wassermann : And?
Cécile Cabrillac : You asked for details of the French youths on the list.
Elise Wassermann : Correct.
Cécile Cabrillac : I thought you meant the ones that were alive.
Elise Wassermann : [Elise looks coldly at Cécile] Why?
[Cécile looks down, embarrassed, since the conversation is taking place before both the French and British investigative teams]
Elise Wassermann : All you need to do is your job. Your assumptions waste time.