He comes home one day and she asks him if he wants an apple.

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Before he dispatches her, she asks him to protect a young girl named Victoria for reasons unknown.

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She asks him a question about the plight of street children in New Delhi, which he passes on to a junior functionary.

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Iole does keep their date, and Hercules asks why she doesn't want him.

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Newcomer Jacqueline (Charlotte Rampling) is also something of an angry ghost: once married to a gay man, she brusquely asks whether Bill is straight before letting him pick her up.

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Despite some differences with Labour mayor Ken Livingstone, she asks those who vote for her to choose him as their second preference, to head off the "serious threat" from Tory candidate Mr Johnson.

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But Tony wants not just a wife but a perfect wife, and when he innocently asks her to curb her expensive obsession, she tries to please him, to a horrible end.

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