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Clips from Anatomy of a Scandal - Episode #1.5 (S01E01)

"I'd adopt it."
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"But in order for a working environment to thrive, people need to feel safe,"
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"that boundaries will be respected."
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"If a Member of Parliament said they were having a relationship with an employee,"
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"I would give them chapter and verse on the ways in which one cannot do that."
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"And yet?"
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"I made a mistake."
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"The affair lasted five months."
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"If you knew it was wrong, why did you continue to allow yourself to be mistaken?"
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"I had never intended to have an affair with Miss Lytton,"
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"but once we started, it was difficult for us to stop."
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"And why was that?"
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"We cared for one another."
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"-And we had a lot in common, actually. -[Angela] Such as?"
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"[chuckling] Politics."
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"We could argue the merits of a position or a protocol for days."
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"The angles, how each would play."
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"Olivia loves policy."
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"She forgets nothing."
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"And I relied on her for her incisive mind."
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"So after the first encounter, the relationship continued."
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"Did you give her gifts?"
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"I sent her flowers on occasion."
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"And yes, I did give her a special gift for her birthday."
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"What was the gift?"
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"A necklace. Platinum with a charm shaped like a key."
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"A key?"
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"How did you intend for her to interpret that?"
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"Just as a token."
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"A sign that she'd become integral to my--"
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"Just that I valued her."
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"And for the sake of the timeline, when was Miss Lytton's birthday?"
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"Late July."
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"Do you remember the exact date?"
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"The 23rd of July."
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"[dramatic music playing]"
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"[Sophie] Hang on, hang on, hang on."
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"-[seagulls warbling] -[waves crashing]"
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"Okay. Is it better?"
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"[James] Yes, much. I can hear you now."
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"Hi, hi, hi."
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"[James] Can you take a video for me?"
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"[Sophie] I will. I promise I will."
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"-[kids laughing] -[Sophie] Do you want us to come home?"
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"-Do you want us to come home early? -[James] Yes, please."
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"But no, I would never do that to you. Have fun."
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"Why can't you sneak out here and join us? Come on."
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"[James] I wish I could, but I have a pile of things to wade through here."
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"Don't work too hard."
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"[James] I won't."
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"-I miss you all. -Miss you, Daddy."
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"-[kids] Miss you, Daddy! -[Sophie] Miss you!"
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"Bye."
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"-I miss you. -[Sophie] Bye, bye."
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"[James] Bye."
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"[Angela] You valued her."
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"You gave her an expensive gift that said as much."
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"Would it be fair to say that at this point the relationship was serious?"
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"Well, yes."
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"Miss Lytton has told us that she was in love with you."
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"Was that feeling mutual?"
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"I think it's a possibility."
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"[unnerving music playing]"
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"Yes."
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"Yes, I was."
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"We were equally invested in each other."
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"Which is why I…"
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"What was your reaction when you were told that Olivia Lytton"
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"had accused you of rape?"
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"I was gobsmacked."
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"I literally did not understand what I was being told."
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"That is the degree to which those words did not compute."
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"I'd like to take you back to what happened"
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"in the committee room corridor on the morning of the 12th of October."
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"[Olivia] James."
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"I can't deal with this shit."
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"Just to be clear, who called the lift?"
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"[lift bell dings]"
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"-It was Olivia. -She said in her evidence that it was you."
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"It was Olivia."
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"Do you know why?"
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"No. I followed her after she called to me and said…"
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"James."
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"-Where are you going? -Where are you going?"
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"[lift bell dings, door opens]"
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"What did you take that to mean?"
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"She knew I was upset about the article in The Times."
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"I assumed she was leading me somewhere where we could discuss how to handle it."
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"How could you tell all that?"
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"We had a shorthand, as colleagues do."
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"What about the fact that she'd also been your lover?"
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"That wasn't on my mind at that moment."
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"I genuinely wanted her opinion on the article."
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"What happened when the lift arrived?"
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"[Olivia] James."
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"[lift bell dings, door opens]"
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"I followed her in."
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"What were you hoping to discuss exactly?"
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"The article's accusation of arrogance, it rocked me,"
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"and I thought of all the people in the world, she would put me right."
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"So once in the lift, did you talk?"
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"No."
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"What happened?"
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"She looked at me in a certain way that we had."
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"Did you approach her?"
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"No. She reached up to kiss me."
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"How can you be so sure she initiated the kiss?"
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"-Because she reached up for my face. -James."
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"I remember being struck by it."
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"After that we were in sync, as it was with us."
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"What do you mean by that?"
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"I put my arms around her in an embrace."
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"We were kissing."
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"She moved one of my hands down to her bottom."
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"Miss Lytton claims you wrenched her blouse open."
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"She's lying, I'm sorry to say."
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"She helped me unbutton it."
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"[both breathing heavily]"
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"I'm not a man who wrenches blouses open."
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"I'm not a brute."
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