Dickensian (TV Series)

Episode #1.1 (2015)

Robert Wilfort: Bob Cratchit

Quotes 

• Ebeneezer Scrooge : Cratchit, bring me the Curiosity Shop account. I saw a light and enquired at the oyster shop. They came back last night, though the old man's granddaughter is sick. Come on, come on.

  [Bob Cratchit hands over the ledger] 

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : If I'm not mistaken - which I never am when it concerns my money in other people's pockets - they left with their debt unpaid. Ah, there see! Eight shillings and thruppence. Do collect, Jacob, before the child dies, won't you? Before we find ourselves faced with drawn curtains and complaints about the cost of burial.

  Bob Cratchit : We intend to collect while he tends his sick granddaughter? And on Christmas Eve?

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : What? Will all things stop because she's ill? Mmm? Will he not eat, drink, relieve himself, step outside for a breath of air?

  [He scoffs] 

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : Well, if all these things he can do whilst his own flesh and blood lies sick in her bed, well then why shouldn't we - who have no such attachment - go about our business in a similar fashion?