Hugh Bonneville: Henry Brown

Paddington

Henry Brown

Mrs. Bird: You just don't get it, do you?
Henry Brown: What?
Mrs. Bird: This family needed that wee bear every bit as much as he needed you. There. Said my piece.
[walks away]

Henry Brown: Hello?
Mr. Curry: Good evening. This is an anonymous phone call.
Henry Brown: Oh hello Mr. Curry.
Mr. Curry: It's not Mr. Curry! It's Mr. Burry. I have some news concerning the bear.
Henry Brown: What? What do you mean?
Mary Brown: Who is it Henry?
Henry Brown: It'd Mr. Curry doing a silly voice.
Mr. Curry: It's Burry!
Henry Brown: He says Paddington's been kidnapped!

Mary Brown: [Henry and Mary come off the motorbike into the hospital, Mary is heavily pregnant with Judy] Not going to let this change us, right?
Henry Brown: No way, baby!
[they do a high-five]

Millicent: Come on, hand over the bear.
Mary Brown: No. We won't do that.
Paddington: Mrs. Brown?
Mary Brown: He's family.
Millicent: Family? You're not even the same species.
Paddington: It's true.
Henry Brown: It is true. And when I first met Paddington, I wanted nothing to do with him. But my wonderful wife... she opened her heart to him, and so did my incredible children. And now I have, too.
Mary Brown: Henry.
Henry Brown: It doesn't matter that he comes from the other side of the world, or that he's a different species. Or that he has a worrying marmalade habit. We love Paddington. And that makes him family! And families stick together! So if you want him, you'll have to take us all!
Millicent: Okay, then.

Henry Brown: Paddington, please don't take this the wrong way, but are you certain there was an explorer? You didn't just find a hat and make up some...
[Paddington glowers at him]
Henry Brown: What? Why are you looking at me like that? Is it me or is it hot in here? Why do I feel so...
Paddington: Uncomfortable?
Henry Brown: Mmm.
Paddington: Flushed?
Henry Brown: Mmm.
Paddington: Queasy?
Henry Brown: Mmm.
Paddington: [stopping] It's called a hard stare. My aunt taught me to do them when people had forgotten their manners.

Henry Brown: Paddington! Up here!
Paddington: [waking from a tranquilizer stupor] Is that you, God?
Henry Brown: What?
Paddington: It's just you sound a lot more like Mr. Brown than I imagined.
Henry Brown: It is Mr. Brown!
Paddington: [seeing him outside the window] Mr. Brown! What are you doing out there?
Henry Brown: We've come to rescue you!
Paddington: You have?
Henry Brown: Mr. Curry explained everything. I'm so sorry I didn't believe you.

Paddington: [after accidentally causing a fire] But it wasn't my fault.
Henry Brown: Who else was in the house? The front door was still locked.
Paddington: There was an elephant.
Judy Brown: An elephant?
Jonathan Brown: What?
Paddington: Well, it had the head of an elephant and the body of a snake, but it tried to shoot me!
Mrs. Bird: Have you been drinking salt water?
Paddington: No.
Mary Brown: Paddington, why don't you tell us what really happened?
Paddington: What?
Mary Brown: We won't be cross.
Henry Brown: Speak for yourself.
Paddington: Mrs. Brown, you must believe me. I would never lie to you.

Henry Brown: Hi, big fella. What's cooking?
Paddington: Marmalade, Mr. Brown. Go on, have a taste.
Henry Brown: [tasting a bit] Mm, delicious.
Paddington: And just one sandwich contains all the vitamins and minerals a bear needs for the whole day.
Jonathan Brown: So does that mean I don't have to eat vegetables?
Mrs. Bird: He said "bear," not "boy."
Paddington: Sorry, Jonathan.

Barry: Oi! New girl.
Henry Brown: Is there a problem?
Barry: Forgot to check your pass.
Henry Brown: My p... oh, my pass. Yes.
[searching the pockets of his coat]
Henry Brown: Ah!
[seeing the ID]
Henry Brown: Ooh. It's an old photograph.
Barry: [taking it] I'm sure you've always been a... whoa. You've changed a bit.
Henry Brown: I lost a lot of weight.
Barry: Telling me. And the, uh...
[indicating a blemish that's supposed to be on his cheek]
Henry Brown: I had it lasered.
Barry: Oh. And the arm's grown back.
Henry Brown: It's a false arm.
Barry: [sticking his arm with the badge's pin] You really can't feel a thing?
[Henry shakes his head]
Barry: Huh.
Henry Brown: [Barry sticks the ID into his shoulder] Nothing.
Barry: Amazing. Well, I'm just off to the toilet. See you in a bit.
[as Barry leaves, Henry pulls the badge off, groaning in pain]

Judy Brown: [trying to rescue Paddington] It's locked. What do we do now?
Henry Brown: I know.
Mary Brown: [he opens a window to the ledge outside] Henry! Henry, do not go out there!
Jonathan Brown: Do it, Dad.
Henry Brown: Someone has to. And that someone is me.
Henry Brown: Oh.
[he grabs her]
Henry Brown: Oh, I say!
[he gives her a dramatically passionate kiss]
Henry Brown: My hero.

Barry: [Mr. Brown sneaks into the Geographer's Guild disguised as a female housekeeper] Haven't seen you before, have I?
Henry Brown: No, that's right. I'm new.
Barry: Mmm, thought so. Lovely day, innit?
Henry Brown: Unusually hot.
Barry: Mmm. Just like you.

Jonathan Brown: [Henry and Paddington retrieve an 8mm film from the Geographer's Guild] So you actually broke in, Dad?
Henry Brown: That's right.
Mary Brown: Well, it sounds incredibly brave, Henry.
Henry Brown: Well, you know, there's a time for being boring and annoying and there's a time for being a man.
Paddington: Mr. Brown dressed up as a lady and someone stuck pins in him.
Judy Brown: What?
Henry Brown: Oh, look, it's starting.
Mary Brown: Sorry. What was that?
Henry Brown: Doesn't matter.
Jonathan Brown: In a dress?
Henry Brown: No! Did look like a dress. It was more of a housecoat. It was quite liberating, actually.

Henry Brown: One night, you said. One night!
Mary Brown: I know.
Henry Brown: You promised to take him to the authorities.
Mary Brown: I never promised.
Henry Brown: Well, you very heavily implied it.
Mary Brown: I know, and I'm sorry, but he was telling the truth, there really IS an explorer!
Mary Brown: What are you doing?
Henry Brown: I'm doing my looking-away face.
Mary Brown: Are you doing the breathing?
Henry Brown: I'm doing the breathing.