The King's Speech · written by David Seidler · 2010

Logue admits to Myrtle that he may have pushed a client who is frightened of becoming great.

Scene 55 of 100 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Myrtle
Lionel

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 57 min into a 1:31 film

The story so farBefore scene 55

Prince Albert seeks to overcome a lifelong stammer so he can serve his country, but his fear of public failure and the royal hierarchy obstruct his work with an unconventional speech therapist.

Scenes 1–11
Bertie lives within royal ceremony but cannot speak publicly and remains constrained by family roles.
Scenes 12–24
Elizabeth seeks a different treatment because Bertie must speak and conventional medicine has failed.
Scenes 25–30
Bertie enters Logue’s unfamiliar, egalitarian practice and finally commits to its daily work.
Scene 41
Bertie begins trusting Logue with the family history and humiliations beneath his speech difficulty.
Just before
Scene 52
In Regent’s Park, Bertie reveals the crisis over David and rejects Logue’s suggestion that he could become king; the friends part in anger.
Scene 53
Bertie slips into Downing Street to ask Baldwin about his brother’s plans.
Scene 54
Baldwin explains that David must abdicate or his government will resign.
Scene 55
This scene

55INT. LIVING ROOM, LOGUE APARTMENT - NIGHT

The family is listening to a favorite radio show.

MYRTLE

What’s the matter, love?

LIONEL

Nothing.

Lionel shrugs helplessly, glances at the boys.

MYRTLE

You look a bit blue.

LIONEL

Just trouble with a client.

MYRTLE

Oh yes.

LIONEL

Frightened of his own shadow.

MYRTLE

Isn’t that why they come to you?

LIONEL

But this chap...

MYRTLE

Yes?

LIONEL

This chap truly could be somebody

great, and he’s fighting me.

MYRTLE

Perhaps he doesn’t want to be

great.

Lionel is silent.

MYRTLE (CONT’D)

Perhaps that’s what you want.

LIONEL

I might have overstepped the mark.

MYRTLE

Apologize, Lionel. Do you both

good. Sometimes you do push a bit

hard.