- Alex Rider: What should I call you?
- Sir David Friend: You can call me David.
- Alex Rider: No, I mean like Dad? Daddy? What does Fiona call you?
- Sir David Friend: She doesn't. Dinners at 7.
- Alex Rider: [to himself] If I can find my way back.
- Fiona Friend: Did you know that Daddy was nearly arrested for fraud, Mummy's so sedated she can barely talk and I have been arrested for drugs? Welcome to the family.
- Alex Rider: What are you doing here?
- [Tom opens up pizza box]
- Alex Rider: It's got anchovies. I hate anchovies.
- Tom Harris: They're all you deserve
- [Alex and Tom are now sat on Alex's bed upstairs]
- Tom Harris: So, your uncle was a spy?
- Alex Rider: Yeah.
- Tom Harris: You should have said.
- Alex Rider: I know, I'm sorry. I completely deserve the anchovies.
- Tom Harris: Yeah, you do. But you know I hate them too, right? I have to suffer because you're a dick.
- Lady Caroline Friend: Fiona? What are you doing here?
- Fiona Friend: I do live here, Mummy. Or hadn't you noticed?
- Sir David Friend: Alex, this is Eva Stellenbosch. Aren't you going to stand up?
- Alex Rider: [scoffs] Is this your idea of a joke? Are we really going through with this?
- Sir David Friend: A little respect, please Alex.
- Eva Stellenbosch: That's quite alright.
- Sir David Friend: Do sit down, Miss Stellenbosch.
- Eva Stellenbosch: Transition moments like these can be hard to cope with.
- Alex Rider: Well shall we get this over with? They don't want me here and I don't wanna be here. But I don't need some pathetic military academy where you have to salute the teachers.
- Eva Stellenbosch: Your parents think you do.
- Alex Rider: My parents are idiots.
- Eva Stellenbosch: Such a lack of respect. When did you get to be so angry, Alex?
- Alex Rider: When you walked in the room?
- Eva Stellenbosch: Hmm, no. No, I think it was a long time before that.
- Alex Rider: Maybe I've been angry all my life.
- Eva Stellenbosch: That's right. And we at Point Blanc can help you take that anger and channel it. We can help you use it. I think it's true to say, you don't really like school.
- Alex Rider: Schools don't really like me.
- Eva Stellenbosch: So nothing is ever your fault. Why are you lying to me, Alex?
- Alex Rider: I'm not lying.
- Eva Stellenbosch: Oh yes you are. You think I can't see right through you. You think I can't tell when someone is pretending to be something they're obviously not.
- Alex Rider: I don't know what you're talking about.
- Eva Stellenbosch: You are not brave. You are not clever. You hardly even know your own parents. And they hardly know you. You live together but you are strangers to each other.
- Alex Rider: They don't understand me, if that's what you mean.
- Eva Stellenbosch: Exactly. And you will be much happier away from them at Point Blanc.
- Mrs. Jones: Alex, I know how you must feel.
- Alex Rider: No, you don't.
- Mrs. Jones: You don't trust me. Or any of us probably. And maybe now you're thinking you shouldn't have trusted Ian. The world we inhabit is, murky. Things are never as clear as we would wish. But all Ian ever wanted was to keep you safe. And you could have trusted him with your life. He loved you, and he was our friend.
- Alex Rider: So you're saying we're all on the same side here?
- Mrs. Jones: No, I'm saying I'm sorry he's gone.
- Alex Rider: I've got to split the chores with her. So, I should do it on my own.
- Tom Harris: Bollocks.
- Alex Rider: What do you mean?
- Tom Harris: That is absolute bollocks.
- Alex Rider: It's not bollocks.
- Tom Harris: Alright then show me the message.
- Alex Rider: No.
- Tom Harris: So, it's just you and Ayisha then? Yeah, just the two of you tonight?
- Alex Rider: No, it's not. Don't be stupid
- Tom Harris: I'm not stupid.
- Alex Rider: You know I didn't mean it like that, come on.
- Tom Harris: Well then show me the message, man.
- Alex Rider: It's, I can't, it's not important. It's just... It's private.
- Sir David Friend: You must be Alex Rider. Why don't you come in?
- [They enter the house]
- Sir David Friend: . My wife, Caroline.
- Alex Rider: Hi.
- Sir David Friend: Before you leave Mrs Jones, I take it you are going to be on your way, I want to make one thing clear. This is the last time. Tell Alan Blunt from me. What he is doing, recruiting a child, it's not just irresponsible...
- Lady Caroline Friend: It's illegal.
- Mrs. Jones: Well, that's something you both know plenty about.
- Sir David Friend: This settles the debts, finally.
- Mrs. Jones: Yes. I'll pass the message on.
- Sir David Friend: Money is just money. You think rich people are different to you? Really, they're just the same.
- Alex Rider: How many houses do you have?
- Sir David Friend: Not sure.
- Alex Rider: Not quite the same then.
- Sir David Friend: There's something I need to say. You can't trust Alan Blunt. No matter what he says or seem to do, the truth is, he will always be using you.
- Alex Rider: You don't need to tell me that. Pull
- [Fires perfect shot and hits clay pigeon]
- Alex Rider: . So, what's next?
- Fiona Friend: You must be Alex.
- Alex Rider: Fiona?
- Fiona Friend: Gosh, well done.
- Alex Rider: Ahp. What, what are you doing here?
- Fiona Friend: Playing Backgammon
- [Fiona gets out of swimming pool]
- Fiona Friend: You just going to stand there and stare? Or do you wanna pass me that towel
- [Alex passes her towel]
- Fiona Friend: My god, don't they have girls where you come from.
- Alex Rider: Yeah, different.
- Tom Harris: So fake car crash, fake police on your doorstep. Fake Alex. Jack's scared about you, you know. She's scared.
- Alex Rider: She doesn't need to be. This isn't like what Ian was doing. It's just going and looking around a school.
- Tom Harris: Then why'd they have to beat you up and threaten your family to make you do it?
- Alex Rider: They didn't beat me up. I hit my head... when they kidnapped me.
- Tom Harris: How do you not get it? These people aren't your friends, okay? Me and Jack, we're your friends. Stop lying to us. Okay?
- Alex Rider: Okay.
- Tom Harris: Never again. Look man, whatever they're asking you to do, just do it quickly and come home. Cos Aiysha's well out of your league and you're basically dicking her around at this point. And sooner or later she's gunna realize that she deserves better.
- Alex Rider: Got it.
- Tom Harris: Oh mate.
- Alex Rider: Yeah, I know.
- Tom Harris: Was it the same guys?
- Alex Rider: What same guys?
- Tom Harris: The guys that beat you up in the park. Only this time they pinned you down and made you look like a douche?
- Alex Rider: Nice.
- Tom Harris: Oh, its intentional. Oh, I'm sorry man it's a strong look.
- Alex Rider: Shut up.
- Tom Harris: I brought some flowers, for Alex. Because, you know, he's so sick. Is he here?
- Jack Starbright: Tom.
- Tom Harris: Alex? Where is he?
- Jack Starbright: Oh, he's staying with friends for a few days.
- Tom Harris: Oh yeah, what friends?
- Jack Starbright: They're, they're just friends.
- Tom Harris: Both of us know that's bollocks
- [Tom takes out phone to read Alex's text aloud]
- Tom Harris: 'Feeling ill, won't make it tomorrow, tell Ayisha sorry'. Finally, she even notices he exists and he blows her off? I mean, he used to be my friend, and now he's got all cool and he's lying to me.
- Jack Starbright: Tom, come on.
- Tom Harris: No, you know what I think? I think everything from Ian's death to now is one big lie. I mean come on, you see it right? They've got him. Just like Ian. You think I'm crazy.
- Jack Starbright: No. I don't.
- Tom Harris: Then where is he?