Cecelia
[Robbie breaks a vase]
You idiot! You realise this is probably the most valuable thing we own.
Not any more, it isn't.
3rd most-quoted character in Atonement (2007): in 8 of its 32 quotes
Most scenes with: Robbie Turner (4)
My darling, Briony found my address somehow and sent a letter. The first surprise was she didn't go up to Cambridge. She's doing nurses' training at my old hospital. I think she may be doing this as some kind of penance. She says she's beginning to get the full grasp of what she did and what it meant. She wants to come and talk to me. [Folds the letter and kisses is] I love you. I'll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me.
Scenes with Cecelia Tallis
7 scenes
Leon Guess who we met on the way in?
Cecilia
Robbie.
Leon I told him to join us tonight.
Cecelia
Leon! You didn't!
Cecelia
:[after reading Robbie's letter] I suppose he's what you might call eligible.
Leon Rather!
Cecelia
He certainly seems to think he's the cat's pyjamas. Which is odd, considering he has pubic hair growing out of his ears.
Cecilia
[crying]
I don't know how I could've been so ignorant about myself... so... so stupid. And you know what I'm talking about, don't you? You knew before I did.
'Robbie: Why're you crying?
Cecilia
Don't you know?
Yes, I know exactly. [kisses her]
Cecilia
My brother and I found the two of them down by the lake. Small Text
Police Inspector You didn't see anyone else?
Cecilia
I wouldn't necessarily believe everything Briony tells you. She's rather fanciful.
Have you been in touch with your family?
Cecilia
No I told you I wouldn't. Leon waited outside the hospital last week. I just pushed past him.
Cee, you don't owe me anything.
Cecilia
Robbie didn't you read my letters? Had I been allowed to visit you? Had they let me, every day, I would have been there every day.
Yes but, if all we have rests on a few moments in a library three and a half years ago then I am not sure, I don't know...
Cecilia
Robbie, look at me, come back, come back to me.
Cecilia
There isn't much time. Robbie has to report for duty at six and he's got a train to catch. So sit down. There are some things you're going to do for us.
[Briony and Cecilia sit in the kitchen. Robbie leans on the table, looming over them]
You'll go to your parents as soon as you can and tell them everything they need to know to be convinced that your evidence was false. You'll go and see a solicitor and make a statement and have it signed and witnessed and send copies to us. Is that clear?
Cecilia
Yes.
Then you'll write a detailed letter to me, explaining everything that led up to you saying you saw me by the lake.
Cecilia
Try and include whatever you can remember of what Danny Hardman was doing that night.
Hardman?
Yes!
It wasn't Danny Hardman. It was Leon's friend, Marshall.
[Cecilia and Robbie look at her, astonished] :Cecilia: I don't believe you.
He's married Lola; I've just come from their wedding.
Cecilia
[Silence. Finally, Robbie exhales the breath he's been holding, Cecilia looks across at him]
Lola won't be able to testify against him now. He's immune.
[Robbie straightens up and turns away, grappling with a riot of emotions; silence; finally, Briony stands up and speaks, very formal]
I'm very, very sorry for the terrible distress that I have caused. I'm very, very sorry.
Just do as I have asked of you. Write it all down. Just the truth. No rhymes, no embellishments, no adjectives. And then leave us be.
I will. I promise.
