The Thick of It (TV Series)

Episode #4.5 (2012)

Roger Allam: Peter Mannion

Quotes 

• Stewart Pearson : Ah, Peter! Getting the old adrenaline pumping, eh? Assuming it can squeeze past the port and stilton.

  Peter Mannion : Shut the fuck up, you prancing shit!

• Stewart Pearson : In the time it's taken for Terri to extract herself from her Bluetooth, this little inquiry has fused! It is now growing faster than the speed of bloody light! It's not going to be something we can see from space, it's going to be space! Brian Cox is gonna phone me and ask for the film rights!

  Peter Mannion : BUT WHAT LEAK? WHAT LEAK? WHAT FUCKING LEAK?

  Stewart Pearson : ANYTHING! If I find out that anyone from here has leaked anything, I will make sure they have to emigrate after this to a country where the don't speak English, and there's no Internet!

  Peter Mannion : But everyone leaked that anything, that would fill the fucking Caspian Sea! We're just a drop in the ocean here!

  Stewart Pearson : No! No! What you are Peter is Leak Zero! It started here! You have presided over a shambolic showering of info! Peter Mannion, 'Singing in the Rain'!