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Clips from The Crown - Act of God (S01E01)

"[doors creak open]"
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"-[Townsend] Ready, sir? -Ready!"
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"[Philip] Blimey!"
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"[Philip] My God."
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"-[Philip] Flying what? Spitfires? -Hurricanes, mostly, sir."
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"-Any kills? -One or two."
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"[Philip] Shouldn't we get her started now? The ground seems terribly close."
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"[Townsend] No, it's too low to restart, sir. We'll do a dead-stick landing."
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"That was wonderful."
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"[man] Thank you, sir."
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"Interesting."
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"[Johnson] I think you should see these."
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"Sir."
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"Good God."
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"We must send a warning."
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"I'll get it to Downing Street right away."
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"And deep breath in..."
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"The air's a little stuffy, ma'am. It might help to open the window a crack?"
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"Not while they're rehearsing."
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"-This is for you. -Thank you."
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"We don't get one every month, either."
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"Does the name Donora mean anything to you?"
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"Donora?"
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"And several thousand became seriously ill from the poisonous fog."
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"as a precautionary measure."
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"Our Prime Minister threw it away, claiming it wasn't a priority."
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"I've read the Aeneid, Mr. Thurman."
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"This is not a government."
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"Mr. Attlee, this is a collection of hesitant, frightened, old men"
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"How you lost the election escapes me."
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"Escapes us all."
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"only to have their unremarkability confirmed to us again?"
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"Ta-ra."
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"[Venetia] "Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide."
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"[Churchill] "...for this is your time.""
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"[reporter] Good morning."
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"which has descended overnight."
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"London Airport is expected to be closed."
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"I'm afraid the visibility is too poor to drive, ma'am."
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"It's what, 200 yards?"
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"I saw that."
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"-Which queen? -Queen Elizabeth, ma'am."
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"Oh, the Queen."
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"We are."
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"I was the queen so long as my husband the king was alive, but since he died,"
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"My late son's widow was also the queen, but upon the death of her husband,"
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"and my mood will improve yet further if you promise me one thing."
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"It's all anyone ever does."
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"where they described this fog as an act of God."
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"Now, in your letter that you sent me,"
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"you said..."
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"Do you really believe that?"
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"To give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards,"
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"It's an archbishop that puts the crown on your head,"
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"I'm not sure that my husband would agree with that."
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"He would also say that he watched his own family destroyed,"
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"Yes, but he represents a royal family of carpetbaggers and parvenus,"
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"It's the Church of England, dear, not the Church of Denmark or Greece."
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"[Collins] It's chaos out there. Trains disrupted, air services cancelled."
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"That's a record low, incidentally."
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"to his friends at the Met office."
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"But the Prime Minister needs to be given a chance."
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"-[horse whickers] -[man] There you go. There you go."
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"No."
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"You asked me to engage in a relationship with a young man, my own age."
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"Be kind but be fierce."
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"You are needed now more than ever before."
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"...for this is your time.""
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"You were 24."
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"The serious fog that brought much of the capital to a standstill yesterday"
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"and widespread disruption reported across the nation."
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"from major London railway stations."
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"It's just because the window was open. Now go to work. You've got a job to do."
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"It is vital that we remain and successfully defend the Suez Canal,"
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"a point that I will be making in person to the Commonwealth Heads,"
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"[Elizabeth] Weather permitting."
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"About the weather? It's fog, ma'am. It will lift eventually."
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"complete with isobars and isohumes."
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"It has been an unusually cold winter,"
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"And I was sympathetic with your father's concerns at the time."
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"baying for blood."
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"-Fly where? -Well, nowhere, he is learning to fly."
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"-It's what he's always wanted. -Why was government not consulted?"
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"And the father of the future king of England"
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"Please. Do not curtail my husband's personal freedoms any further."
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"There comes a time where one must draw a line in the sand."
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"And the job of drawing that line falls to Cabinet, ma'am. Not to you."
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"The choking, eye-watering fog which has already caused two days of chaos"
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"have attempted to reduce emissions"
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"In parts of the capital, there is now a total breakdown of law and order."
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"Hospitals are filling up,"
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"Then we have rain."
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"It's an act of God, Bobbety."
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"It's weather. And for better or for worse, we get a great deal of it on this island."
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"[butler] Telephone, sir. The Marquis of Salisbury."
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"Oh, not now."
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"-Then what is needed? -Money. People. Trained staff."
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"Let her rest for now."
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"-Such as? -The Prime Minister, for example."
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"I see. You're just going to walk into Downing Street and whisper in his ear."
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"You know, my day is bad enough without some delusional girl playing jokes."
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"-[man] Jim, where are you? -[man 2] Over here."
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"Perhaps it's time to prove you're not."
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"[Philip whistles]"
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"You know what's remarkable about those words?"
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"before man first got in a plane."
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"Leonardo da Vinci."
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"Elizabeth."
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"It seems that even among his own people the feeling is that our Prime Minister"
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"As sovereign, you have the right to demand"
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"-Well, then, they must try harder. -They will."
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"So have asked for your help and influence."
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"-As, alas, did everyone else. -And now with looters on the street"
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"the unfolding national emergency..."
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"-They've been notified. -I want to go to the hospital."
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"It seems our Prime Minister, a man who's led the country through many crises,"
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"Representations have been made to me,"
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"but shortly before your father died the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, came,"
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"begging his late Majesty to intervene,"
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"Different situation, different sovereign."
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