Ronke Adekoluejo credited as playing...
Jack Starbright
- Alex Rider: Wait. Wait! Wait! Wait. Just wait, a moment, please
- [Walks over to his phone, takes out Mrs Jones' card but instead lifts his phone to his ear without dialling]
- Alex Rider: . I don't even need to dial, do I? You're listening right now. I was already gunna come in, I was already going to. All you've done is show me what kind of people you are. But I'll do it alright. I'll do it. Call off the dogs.
- Immigration Officer Powell: [Phones rings] Go ahead.
- [pause]
- Immigration Officer Powell: Understood.
- [Immigration and Social Services leave]
- Jack Starbright: What the hell, what was that?
- Alex Rider: Jack, I have to go out.
- Jack Starbright: No Alex, tell me what's happening
- Alex Rider: I can't, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'll be right back. I promise, okay?
- Jack Starbright: Alex
- Alex Rider: You saw what they can do, they can deport you. They can take you away. I'll be right back, I promise.
- [Alex leaves]
- Ian Rider: Well, you know Alex, he's, he's, he's bright and he's determined and he questions everything but he can be impulsive and he can be irresponsible and I need you to help set him clear boundaries
- Jack Starbright: He's not a kid anymore. He doesn't need me to tie his shoelaces and pack his lunch and run his life. He can do that all himself.
- Ian Rider: You hold this place together Jack, remember that.
- Jack Starbright: Alex?
- Alex Rider: He shouldn't have died
- Jack Starbright: I know
- Alex Rider: He shouldn't. They shouldn't have let him.
- Jack Starbright: Sweetie, it was an accident. No one can stop that
- Alex Rider: No, it wasn't. Someone did this. Someone did this to us.
- [Doorbell rings]