Dominic West credited as playing...
Fred (Scrooge's nephew)
- [Scrooge appears at Fred's table, and clears his throat. Everyone turns and stares at him in amazement]
- Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge: [uncertain] Fred? I-It's I. It's your Uncle Scrooge. I've come to dinner... will you have me, Fred?
- Fred: [rising] Bless my soul! Have you? Of course we'll have you!
- [He pumps his uncle's hand, but Scrooge waves him off and goes to Emily]
- Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge: And you, my dear? Can you forgive a stupid old man who doesn't want to be left out in the cold anymore? Will you take me in?
- [extreme silence]
- Emily: Oh... Merry Christmas, Uncle!
- Fred: A merry Christmas, Uncle! God save you.
- Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge: [unsurprised] Bah, humbug.
- Fred: [smiling] Christmas a humbug, Uncle? You don't mean that.
- Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge: I do mean that, sir. Merry Christmas, indeed. What reason have you to be merry? What right have you be merry? You're poor.
- Fred: Well, what right have you to be miserable, then? You're rich. Merry Christmas!
- Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge: Damn your "Merry Christmas"! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money. A time for finding yourself a year older and not an hour richer. A time for balancing your books and finding every item dead against you. If I had my way, every idiot with "Merry Christmas" on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
