Holby City1999

[Malik confronts a patient who has been beating up his wife and burning her with cigarettes, and is now in hospital because she tried to kill him in retaliation]

Malcolm Johnson:
How long before I can go home?

Antoine Malick:
End of the week, with a bit of luck.

Malcolm Johnson:
And Susan?

Antoine Malick:
She might be detained a bit longer.

Malcolm Johnson:
I'm going to book her a holiday when she's recovered. It'll do us both good.

Antoine Malick:
Well, don't forget your duty-free fags - for all those long evenings of torture. I know what you are.

Malcolm Johnson:
Susan been talking, has she?

Antoine Malick:
She didn't have to.

Malcolm Johnson:
She's *very* convincing, isn't she?

Antoine Malick:
You can't fake the look I saw on her face. What do you get off on? The smell of burning skin? The begging for mercy?

Malcolm Johnson:
You do realise that I could have your balls for this.

Antoine Malick:
For telling you what a spineless bullying monster you are?

Malcolm Johnson:
Well it takes one to know one. You really, really want to hurt me, don't you? Look at the blind rage behind your eyes.

Antoine Malick:
Shut it!

Malcolm Johnson:
Well you'll never get a better chance.

[Malik is furious and clenches fists, itching to hit Johnson]

Antoine Malick:
[menacingly] Believe me, I'm tempted.

Malcolm Johnson:
But you're a man of honour, aren't you. You've come to warn me off. Come to tell me to let Susan go. That's never going to happen, my friend, because she's my wife and she's married to me. I *will* take her home and life *will* just rattle on.

[Oliver bursts in as Malik is about to hit Johnson. Malik steps back, having regained control of his temper]

Antoine Malick:
You're wrong. I'm not trying to save your wife. She's saving herself. She's out there now there talking to someone from CID.

Malcolm Johnson:
And do you *really* think she's going to press charges?

Antoine Malick:
She's confessing to your attempted murder. She'd rather be safe locked up in jail than out there knowing that you're looking for her.

Malcolm Johnson:
I'll just deny everything.

Antoine Malick:
They don't need you. With bad behaviour she's looking at seven, eight years of freedom.