Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006)

Laura Fraser: Lisa MacKinlay

Quotes 

• Nina : [throwing little pebbles at Lisa's window] 

  Lisa : [opens the window, smiles]  I thought you were Kary.

  Nina : [smiling]  Sorry to disappoint.

  Lisa : Who said you did?

• [Nina and Lisa open two bottles of beer synchronal on a table] 

  Lisa : Just as well your dad wasn't here to see that. That table's a temple!

  Nina : NOT a bloody bottle opener!

• Lisa : I don't do indian.

  Nina : Well, apart from my brother.

• Lisa : [sees a text written underneath the wallpaper: 'Nina + Lorna - True love December 1988'; chuckling]  Who is Lorna?

  Nina : I don't know, I have no idea!

  Lisa : [mumbling]  Lorna... Lorna Mullin! I remember Lorna! Captain of the school hockey team, big blue eyes, tall, legs right up to her hocksters. I'm shocked!

  Nina : [surprised] 

  Lisa : I wouldn't have thought she was your type!

  Nina : Wha-, she WASN'T my type! I was nine! I had a crush on the world and his wife, when I was nine!

  Bobbi : [comes in]  Me too!

• Lisa : I really want this, me and you. I've never felt like this before! Let's tell everyone!

  Nina : I gotta go. I can't do this just now, Lisa.

  Lisa : [looks disappointed] 

  [later, Nina rushes in the kitchen] 

  Lisa : I thought you'd done a runner on me.

  Nina : Not yet. But I'm thinking about it.

  Lisa : Of course you are. That''s what you always do.

• Nina : What?

  Lisa : Kiss me.

  Nina : We're on national television.

  Lisa : We are.

• Nina : Let me get this straight: Dad used the restaurant as collateral for a bet?

  Kary : Not exactly.

  Lisa : He used half of it.

  Nina : Oh, that's alright then. Had me worried for a minute.

• Nina : [about Sanjay]  I just didn't love him.

  Lisa : No such thing.

  Nina : As love?

  Lisa : There isn't. Just a big con. See, your dad told you how to cook. My dad told me never gamble with something you're not prepared to lose.

• Lisa : So, who are we up against?

  Nina : Okay. 'The Bengal Tiger'.

  Lisa : Pussycat?

  Nina : Unless it is under a new management.

  Lisa : It is.

  Nina : Ah... 'Bimal's Balti and Dosa House'?

  Lisa : Last year's winners.

  Nina : Hm... and then last, but never least: 'The Jewel in the Crown'

  Nina : [sighing] 

  [looking around] 

  Nina : It's in the bag?

  Lisa : Oh yeah, it's in the bag.

• Sanjay : It'll never happen, you know. The two of you. Not in that way.

  Lisa : What way, Sanjay?

  Sanjay : Come on, her mother will never allow it.

  Lisa : She won't run away again. You know why? Because this time she has someone to stay for.

  Sanjay : I won't be too sure about that. I mean, she'd not gonna risk it. She'd lose everything. You really think she wants to lose her family again, even for love? Chances for that are piss poor.

• Lisa : [about the little temple]  It's beautiful, isn't it? Beautiful monument to eternal love.

  Nina : You don't believe in love.

  Lisa : Your dad said some king spent 22 years building it for his queen.

  Nina : Dead queen. Hah. It's a monument of grief.

  Lisa : Same thing. If he was from Nashville, he'd have written a song about it.

• Nina : [trying to chose between two bunches of herbs] 

  Lisa : Green and green. Any differences?

  Nina : Winning

  [throws one to Lisa] 

  Nina : and losing

  [puts the second one back on the table] 

  Nina : .

• Nina : Go on. I need you to know the difference for when you taste mine.

  Lisa : [tastest the dish]  Mh, it's delicious.

  Nina : It's terrible! They didn't marinate the meat long enough. The longer you marinate it, the more tender it becomes.

  Bobbi : [looks like he knows EXACTLY what is going on between the two girls] 

  Nina : Taste... that.

  [feeds Lisa] 

  Nina : Well?

  Lisa : That's better.

  Nina : What's better about it?

  Lisa : [constantly grinning]  I don't know.

  Bobbi : [and now he looks as if he is totally sure] 

• Nina : [Nina about cooking]  It's all about chemistry. And the chemistry has to be right.

  Lisa : [totally fascinated... and not just by the cooking] 

• Lisa : [cuts chilli, gets chilli in her right eye, screams] 

  Nina : Okay, okay, you need to wash it out with cold water immediately!

  Lisa : ARGH!

  Nina : Don't rub it, it'll make it worse!

  Lisa : Ha, NOW she tells me?

  Nina : [washes Lisa's eye with cold water, drys her face]  Let me see... Aha, yeah, you'll live.

  [smirking] 

  Lisa : [chuckling]  You sound like my doctor.

  Kary : [comes in]  I thought that was meant to be me? What happened?

  Lisa : Oh, erm, got some Plutonium in the eye.

  Nina : [points at the table]  Chilli.

  Kary : [very self-confident]  Cold water. You need to wash it out.

  Nina : Is there an echo in here?

• Kary : Oh, what the hell. There's something I need to tell you, mum. I'm married. Her name's Janice and I pure love her.

  Suman : Well, seems I have a lot to learn about love.

  [hugs Sanji] 

  Suman : My childrem seem to understand it much better than I do....

  [looking at Nina and Lisa] 

  Suman : Any more bombshells?

  Nina : [looks afraid] 

  Lisa : [looks at Nina] 

  Priya : Come on, we gotta go.

• Sanjay : It'll never happen, you know. The two of you. No, ahah.

  Lisa : Go off, Sanji.

  Sanjay : Come on, her mother will never allow it.

  Lisa : She won't run away again. You know why? Because this time she has someone to stay for.

  Sanjay : I won't be too sure about that. I mean, she'd not gonna risk it. She'd lose anything. You really think she wants to lose her family again, even for love? Chances for that are pissed, pal.

• Nina : [looking to Lisa]  What?

  Lisa : [determined]  Kiss me.

  Nina : [hesitant]  We're on national television.

  Lisa : We are.

  Nina : ...

  Lisa : [goes away] 

  Nina : [looks torn apart, than goes away too] 

• Lisa : [sees a text written underneath the wallpaper: 'Nina + Lorna - True love December 1988'; chuckling]  Who is Lorna?

  Nina : I don't know, I have no idea!

  Lisa : [mumbling]  Lorna... Lorna Mullin! I remember Lorna! Captain of the school hockey team, big blue eyes, tall, legs right up to her hocksters. I'm shocked!

  Nina : [surprised] 

  Lisa : I wouldn't have thought she was your type!

  Nina : Wha-, she WASN'T my type! I was nine! I had a crush on the warold and his wife, when I was nine!

  Bobbi : [comes in]  Me too!

• Kary : Oh, what the hell. There's something I need to tell you, mum. I'm married. Her name's Janice and I pure love her.

  Suman : Well, seems I have a lot to learn about love.

  [hugs Sanji] 

  Suman : My children seem to understand it much better than I do....

  [looking at Nina and Lisa] 

  Suman : Any more bombshells?

  Nina : [looks afraid] 

  Lisa : [looks at Nina] 

  Priya : Come on, we gotta go.

• Lisa : [about the little temple]  It's beautiful, isn't it? Beautiful monument of eternal love.

  Nina : You don't believe in love.

  Lisa : Your dad said some king spent 25 years building it for his queen.

  Nina : Dead queen. Hah. It's a monument of grief.

  Lisa : Same thing. If it comes from love it's worth written a song about it.

• Lisa : I really want this, me and you. I've never felt like this before! Let's tell everyone!

  Nina : I gotta go. I can't do this just now, Lisa.

  Lisa : [looks disappointed] 

  [later, Nina rushes in the kitchen] 

  Lisa : I thought you'd run away from me.

  Nina : Not yet. But I'm thinking about it.

  Lisa : Of course you are. That''s what you always do.

• Kary : Oh, what the hell. There's something I need to tell you, mum. I'm married. Her name's Janice and I pure love her.

  Suman : Well, seems I have a lot to learn about love.

  [hugs Kary] 

  Suman : My children seem to understand it much better than I do....

  [looking at Nina and Lisa] 

  Suman : Any more bombshells?

  Nina : [looks afraid] 

  Lisa : [looks at Nina] 

  Priya : Come on, we gotta go.