- Manu Buffong: Good morning, Mr. Baxter.
- Adam Carter: Morning, Mr. President.
- Manu Buffong: Today is indeed a momentous day.
- Adam Carter: You feeling optimistic, Mr. President?
- Manu Buffong: I'm always optimistic. In my line of work, and in particular in my continent, you learn to have faith that good will win out in the end. I expect it's the same in your profession.
- Adam Carter: The British government is certainly looking for a positive outcome.
- Manu Buffong: And you?
- Adam Carter: I'm just a civil servant.
- Manu Buffong: Is that what they call it now?
- Adam Carter: I don't know what you mean.
- Manu Buffong: I just find at these summits that nothing is quite as it seems.
- Ruth Evershed: [in a hotel corridor] The music woke me. Never really gone in for Europop.
- Harry Pearce: Looks like you weren't sleeping at all. Nor was I.
- Ruth Evershed: That's the Italian Trade Minister. He's apparently a bit of a party animal. Caused a scandal at an EU conference last year by insisting on dancing to the Macarena at the last night banquet. I'll get the management to ask him to turn it down.
- Harry Pearce: Ruth...
- Ruth Evershed: Good night, Harry.
- Malcolm Wynn-Jones: [monitoring Ruth and Harry's movements] Oh, Ruth!
- [quoting Shakespeare's Measure for Measure]
- Malcolm Wynn-Jones: Our doubts are traitors, and makes us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
- Ruth Evershed: Adam wants me at Havensworth.
- Malcolm Wynn-Jones: I thought you asked not to go.
- Ruth Evershed: I did. But, um... I was overruled.
- Malcolm Wynn-Jones: I apologize if I was insensitive before. What goes on between you and Harry is none of my business.
- Ruth Evershed: Nothing's going on.
- [first lines]
- Malcolm Wynn-Jones: [voiceover] Bugs operational in all locations. CCTV is active.
- [with Ruth, watching a computer monitor]
- Malcolm Wynn-Jones: We have blanket surveillance.
- Ruth Evershed: The delegates are arriving.
- James Allan: You think this summit is actually going to change Africa? Dream on. That continent is nothing but an economical albatross round our necks, a continent of genocidal maniacs living in the dark ages. Havensworth is about getting a bit of decent PR, getting aging rock stars off our backs, and granting the opportunity to give our prime minister a decent send-off