4. Mother's Milk (第1季)【完整台词】

I thought you were only meant to take it for 30 days.

Oh, I definitely have a problem.

Namely that they're not strong enough.

I get all the side effects: memory loss, dehydration, nightmarish withdrawals.

Everything except the sleep.

Strange to think we used to do this for fun.

Remember taking acid in Greece? I remember where you stashed it.

Yes, sorry about that.

I didn't mind.

But let's not get nostalgic.

Another pleasure denied.

Whenever I get nostalgic, I force myself to remember what youth was actually like.

It was awful.

The trouble is, all I remember is the sex.

A great abundance of sex and a sense of potential instead of an absence of sex and a sense of waste.

[HE EXHALES] Christ, I'm gonna need 40 milligrams tonight.

Perhaps Perhaps we shouldn't be having this conversation.

Perhaps not.

[GRUNTS SOFTLY] [ELEANOR] Oh, my darling.

So sorry to wake you.

[WHISPERS] What time is it? [WHISPERS] It's very early.

Are we going now? Shall I pack my bag? Oh, my darling.

I have to go without you.

You can't.

- Darling, please understand.

- I want to come.

You have to stay here with your father just for a short while.

- I want to come.

- And then when I've spoken to the lawyers - No, please - Patrick.

Listen to me.

This is very important.

But I've got to do this properly, yes? In exactly the right way.

And then I can come back and get you.

Then we can be together.

Patrick.

Do you understand? [DOOR CLOSES] [GRUNTS] - [ROBERT] Daddy.

- Hello.

Hello.

What are you doing? Oh, Thomas has pushed me out of bed again.

So I thought I'd go and sleep in his room.

But that's Julia's room.

Yes.

Erm I was just checking to see if she was [THOMAS CRIES] Oh, poor Thomas.

Well, I better You must Night.

[THOMAS CONTINUES CRYING] [MARY] Robert? Lunch! - [CHILDREN LAUGHING] - There.

I must say, having you both here at the same time is like a dream.

[ELEANOR] Like a - dream.

- My dear.

So nice to see you out.

How are you? Very Well, I'll leave you two to chat.

Uh Thomas, don't play with the wine.

That's for grown-ups.

It certainly is.

Oh, is that the answer? - We'll find out, won't we? - I'm sure we will.

I was going to buy Thomas some child reins for his birthday but apparently they're out of fashion.

I'm not putting my child in a harness.

Really? Nanny used to swear by them.

- And I used to swear at them.

- You didn't, actually, because swearing was not allowed.

Unlike some households.

Which of our mothers is worst, do you think? I realize the disinheritance thing gives Eleanor the edge but yours is really putting in the work.

At least eat something first.

Anyone who thinks a week is a long time in politics should have her to stay.

A week's a fucking eternity.

I don't know how you cope without a nanny, Mary.

I don't know how I'd cope with one.

I've always wanted to look after the children myself.

Yes, motherhood takes some people that way.

It didn't in my case but then I was quite young when I had Lucy.

I think you can be too nice to children.

If you want them to grow up to be corporate lawyers or chief executives, no use filling their head with ideas of trust and truth-telling and reliability.

They won't be able to compete in the real world.

- Hear, hear! - [SEAMUS] Hello, there.

[JULIA] Oh, Christ.

I was gonna call by and see Eleanor.

But here she is now.

- Hello.

- Seamus, please sit here.

Join us for lunch.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

I wouldn't want to intrude on a family affair.

Well, maybe just for a moment or two.

- Patrick says you're a writer.

- Did I? I've sometimes thought myself about writing a book.

I've got so many ideas but it's putting them down on paper.

It can do your head in.

I've done a beginning, several beginnings.

But maybe it's all just beginnings.

- Do you know what I mean? - I do.

She's doing this on purpose now just to annoy us.

We won't give her the satisfaction.

It all sounds absolutely fascinating.

Join us.

I'll sign you up for a session.

D'you know? Perhaps I will.

Patrick? I'm going to do a workshop.

Yes, you should.

It's the only way you'll get to see the house in the cherry season.

Oh, the cherries! Now, they are something.

Me and Eleanor always have this little ritual we do around the cherries, don't we, Eleanor? - Yes.