Cracker (TV Series)

One Day a Lemming Will Fly: Part 1 (1993)

John Graham-Davies: Francis Bates

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• Francis Bates : I saw a man jogging, that's all.

  DS Jimmy Beck : Your girlfriend didn't mention a jogger.

  Francis Bates : She was in the car. I was having a pee.

  DCI Bilborough : Can you describe him?

  Francis Bates : Thirty-odd, average height. It was dark.

  DS Jimmy Beck : Nothing else?

  Francis Bates : Tracksuit top with a hood. I got back into the car, we started to mess around. She took off. I chased her for a bit.

  DCI Bilborough : Chased her?

  Francis Bates : She likes that kind of thing.

  DCI Bilborough : What kind of thing?

  Francis Bates : Rough. We were just about to... we were just about to start when we saw it.

  DCI Bilborough : A thirteen-year-old boy.

  Francis Bates : I didn't know who it was, how old he was. We just ran.

  DCI Bilborough : You left a thirteen-year-old boy swinging from a tree.

  Francis Bates : She... she's married... I'm married, I've got kids...

  DCI Bilborough : You could have phoned anonymously.

  Francis Bates : We did.

  DCI Bilborough : SHE did, twelve hours later. You left his parents clutching at straws for twelve hours. If it'd been left up to you, you wouldn't have phoned at all. Your Mrs finding about your bit on the side, that means more to you than the death of a child.

  [He stands up angrily] 

  DCI Bilborough : FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, WHAT KIND OF A MAN ARE YOU?

  DS Jimmy Beck : Hey, hey, hey!

  DCI Bilborough : He could have been alive! Didn't that enter your head? He could have been alive! You could have saved him!

  DS Jimmy Beck : We've got what we want, alright?

  DCI Bilborough : Human nature! If a child's in trouble, you don't go away from him, you go TO him! Human bloody nature! If you don't do that, you're not human, you're some kind of bloody animal! We were there. We were there, waiting with them! You tosspot! You prick! You bloody animal! Twelve bloody hours and then they told you, you prick!