London Spy
Episode 4
"I Know"
Marcus (Adrian Lester): You didn't know, did you?
How smart he was?
Danny (Ben Whishaw): I knew.
Marcus: But not really.
Danny: Not in the way you did, no.
Marcus: His partner... without any appreciation of his intellect.
Beyond some generalised idea that he was good with numbers.
Love without knowledge.
Popular culture might depict that as a romantic notion, I suppose.
Danny: He never spoke about his work.
Marcus: What did you talk about?
Danny: Everything else.
Marcus: I see.
No, I don't.
I don't see at all.
Danny: Well, what did you two talk about? Outside of work?
Marcus: We didn't.
Look, try to understand.
I was sure, absolutely certain that--
he was going to change the world in some way.
Not my world.
THE world.
Can you imagine the enormity of that feeling?
Being in the company of someone like that?
Danny: We knew different people.
Marcus: The man I knew was exceptional.
The man you knew was not.
Unless you're going to tell me how many sugars he took in his tea
or how he liked to be fucked.
Are these the details that define us?
Danny: I think that being admired is--lonely.
Marcus: You're right, I'm sure.
But that was the price he had to pay.
The ordinary world wasn't for him.
And his flirtation with it--was always going to end badly.
Danny: Professor? I miss him too.
