Dickensian (TV Series)

Episode #1.4 (2015)

Ned Dennehy: Ebeneezer Scrooge

Quotes 

• [Bystanders retch as the feet of Jacob Marley's corpse protrude from a badly constructed coffin] 

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : Nothing but good mahogany can keep in the stench of a putrefying corpse. Marley left no provision for such a coffin. Jacob Marley left no provision for a coffin at all, or indeed any funeral. It's the common pit for him, I'm afraid. Well then...

  [He hands over some coins] 

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : There's an end to it.

  [Scrooge replaces his hat and walks off] 

• [a boy delivers a note to Scrooge and stands patiently while it is read, awaiting payment] 

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : [Looking up]  What are you waiting for?

  [the boy promptly leaves empty-handed]