Adam: Tell me, how did you get involved in this sort of thing?
Basil: Oh. Right. University.
Adam: Yeah?
Basil: Recruited by a handsome tutor. Oh, God.
Adam: Did you not think twice, no?
Basil: Not for a second. My therapist would say – if I hadn’t told her I was a dentist – that I am the product of an immigrant family, cursed with a compulsion to impress the natives.
Adam: [laughs] Cheers to that.
(The Night Manager, Series 2, Episode 4, 18:12.)
Suggested citation: Fugard, A. (2026, February 3). Basil – one of the real heroes of The Night Manager [blog post]. https://andifugard.info/basil-one-of-the-real-heroes-of-the-night-manager/
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