Sally Hawkins credited as playing...
Mary Brown
- Henry Brown: Would you excuse us a moment?
- [flicks a switch]
- Henry Brown: What are you doing?
- Mary Brown: Talking to the nice men.
- Henry Brown: Nice men? Mary, we can't trust these people. I mean look at them! Talk about a rogues' gallery. Hideous! And as for that bearded baboon in the middle, he's hardly got two brain cells to rub together.
- Knuckles McGinty: We can still hear you, Mr Brown. That was the light you turned off. The microphone is on the other side. It's got 'microphone' written on it.
- Mary Brown: You wanted to get that book so Aunt Lucy could see London, didn't you?
- Paddington: It was always her dream.
- Mary Brown: Well we thought... why look at London in a book? When she could see the real thing.
- [doorbell rings]
- Mary Brown: Why don't you go and answer that?
- Phoenix Buchanan: [laughs] Oh very very funny. Anyway! They do say that at Madame Kozlova's all your dreams come true. So, if you had one wish tonight what would it be?
- Paddington: Oh that's easy. I'd like to get my Aunt Lucy a birthday present.
- [the crowd all say 'Aw']
- Mary Brown: [quietly] Darling.
- Mary Brown: What happened to the man I married? He'd have believed me.
- Henry Brown: Oh, him. He's gone.
- Mrs. Bird: Well I believe you, Mary.
- [sotto voce:]
- Mrs. Bird: Actors are some of the most evil, devious people on the planet.
- Mary Brown: Are they?
- Mrs. Bird: They lie for a living.
- Mary Brown: Crikey.
- Phoenix Buchanan: But! I do have a little bit of good news that might turn your frown, upside down.
- Mary Brown: Oh yes?
- Phoenix Buchanan: It looks...
- [crosses his fingers]
- Phoenix Buchanan: ... fingers, fingers, fingers - as though the funding may be coming through for my one-man show.
- Mary Brown: Oh. Right.
- Phoenix Buchanan: It's an evening of monologue and song featuring some of my better-known characters. Would you like a little preview?
- Judy Brown: Guess what, Paddington?
- Paddington: [drinking from the teapot] H'm?
- Judy Brown: The steam fair's coming to town.
- Paddington: Unh!
- Judy Brown: I'm going along tonight to write about it in my newspaper.
- Paddington: H'm!
- Jonathan Brown: Who's going to want to read about that?
- Judy Brown: Everyone! They travel the world in a old steam train! I thought you'd love it!
- Jonathan Brown: I do. Don't tell anyone, OK? Not cool.
- Mary Brown: Why don't we all go?
- Henry Brown: Good idea!
- Mary Brown: Your father's a dab hand at coconut shy. Bullseye Brown they used to call him.
- Henry Brown: Well, not anymore. Coconuts are a young man's game.
- Phoenix Buchanan: Oh, well that sounds entirely... plausible.
- Henry Brown: Does it? Great! Well, I'm delighted to say that everything seems tickety-boo.
- Phoenix Buchanan: Wonderful.
- Henry Brown: So! I'll nip back to the office and get the boys to type that up ASAP. And we'll hope to see you soon!
- Phoenix Buchanan: Indeed! Perhaps next time, *not* in your pyjamas. Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
- Mary Brown: [laughing] He's such a silly one!
- Phoenix Buchanan: Now, now.
- Mary Brown: Mysterious things have been happening all over town.
- Phoenix Buchanan: Oh yes?
- Mary Brown: Strange characters turning up at every landmark in that book.
- Phoenix Buchanan: Are they!