Hugh Grant credited as playing...
Jeremy Thorpe
- Jeremy Thorpe: [learning that Peter Bessell is planning to re-marry and leave for America] Peter, I wish you a long and happy life. And then I wish for Norman Scott to be killed.
- Jeremy Thorpe: Of course, the real question is where to dispose of the body. In New York they drop corpses in the river. I've read that you can seal a body in concrete at the base of a motorway. Tin mines. That's the solution.
- [David Holmes is waiting outside Jeremy Thorpe's office]
- Jeremy Thorpe: David, ready for you now. Come in, lock the door. So, as I was saying. Norman Scott. Tin mines. Hundreds of abandoned tin mines all over Cornwall.
- David Holmes: Brilliant. You drop the body down there, he'll never be found.
- Jeremy Thorpe: Take him to the pub, get him drunk, shove him in a car, drive him out to Bodmin Moor, kill him.
- Peter Bessell: That's *my* constituency.
- David Holmes: Kill him how?
- Jeremy Thorpe: Oh, come on, it's quite easy to break someone's neck. Come here, Pedro. Elbow there, jerk up...
- [he demonstrates on Peter Bessell]
- David Holmes: He might wriggle out of it. Men like him tend to be wrigglers.
- Jeremy Thorpe: Then you'll just have to shoot him, David. Can you get a gun?
- David Holmes: I can do whatever you want, Jeremy.
- Jeremy Thorpe: [imitating David Holmes's northern accent] He can "Do whatever I want, Jeremy". Well, shoot the bugger stone dead.
- [Peter Bessell looks horrified at the way events are unfolding]