Mr. Tony Perry

**Mr. Tony Perry** was the deputy headmaster and Biology teacher at Kings School in Season 1. In episode 4, he served as the acting headmaster as Mr. MacTavish was sick at the time.

## Personality

Being Headmaster Andrew MacTavish’s enforcer, Mr. Perry was strict, almost always very stern, and happily punished any student who broke the rules. He seems to have a particularly low tolerance for lying and forbidden items. Despite this, he appears to have a softer side, as seen in Episode 3 when he sat the boys down, calmly telling them that he won’t tolerate beastliness, which is considered one of the weirdest, yet funniest moments throughout the whole show. Numerous times throughout the series, he appears to be very religious.

## Quotes

### Episode 1

* Right, have we got all of the bags outside? Right now, one last chance, I'm not going to look on those bags, but do any of you want to put anything else in there that you *perhaps* forgot you put between your towels to keep it safe, stop it from getting broken, or anything like that. Are you absolutely certain?

* Watch me carefully. *[steps outside classroom, then back inside, but the students do not do anything]* WHY DIDN'T YOU STAND UP? I just entered the room! *[the students stand up]* Now look, we've got to get this right! Please! Now sit down. *[all students do so]* Now, forms of address; I am "sir" or "Mr. Perry". There will be times when you want to say "Yes, sir", because it is a mouthful to say it as "...Mr. Perry", but there are times when you really want to draw my attention to something or perhaps I have drawn your attention to something when you want to be just that little bit more sharp, more formal, when you will use a member of staff's full name. If you're walking around the school at any time, and you do have your cap on, and you pass the headmaster, or myself, or Matron, please touch your cap. Just touch your cap as a sign that you acknowledge a presence. The member of staff may well speak to you, but don't worry if they don't, but you have acknowledged that presence and they *will* notice it.

* Right. Open the notebook at the first page and see if you can get yourself to write. Today's date: 22nd of July.

* **Mr. Perry:** *[to Nicola]* Stand up. What are you doing?
* **Nicola:** Nothing.
* **Mr. Perry:** *[corrects Nicola]* Nothing, **SIR!** If you are brilliant enough to be capable of doing "nothing," you shouldn't be in a school like this. I asked you, were you talking?
* **Nicola:** Yes, sir.
* **Mr. Perry:** Turn around, walk down to the wall, and stay there. If you think it's a joke, then you'll be joining others in here at 8:45 this evening.

* **Mr. Rockell:** Mr. Perry?
* **Mr. Perry:** Mr. Rockell? *(sees Nic Hall's Jelly babies) **WHAT?!?!?!***
* **Mr. Rockell:** Someone has been pregnant and given birth to babies!! Immaculate conception!
* **Mr. Perry:** I stood there, I said I didn't want any surprises, ***DID I NOT?!?!***
* **Nic Hall:** Yes sir.
* **Mr. Perry:** ***FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I GOT TO SAY IT?!?!?!***
* **Nic Hall:** No, sir.
* **Mr. Perry:** Get to my office!
* **Nic Hall:** Also, I've got a cake under there, but I didn't... I didn't realise that I genuinely...
* **Mr. Perry:** Get the cake, and get to the office.
* *[later]*
* **Mr. Perry:** You came in in good faith. We TOOK you in good faith! You'll be in detention tomorrow, and I'll tell you now, if I have any more incidents, you've used up all your credibility, you will be going straight to Mr. MacTavish. So keep out of my way tonight, and if you've got anymore revelations, let's have them **now.**
* Are we going to have to squeeze everything out of you, one item at a time? Now I suggest as you go back to the dormitory, and you actually get ready for bed. you will look different to everybody else and if anyone says to you, "Why are you ready for bed?", tell them that you have lied. Now go and do it.

(a reflection to the cameraman after Mr. Perry saw Nic Hall's contraband)

He's just really done himself a lot of harm and upset what was really good first few hours in this house.

### Episode 2

* **Mr. Perry:** Is this your bed?
* **Richard Mylles:** Yes sir.
* **Mr. Perry:** Are these your possessions?
* **Richard Mylles:** Yes.
* **Mr. Perry:** *[notices chocolate stashed in a nightstand's drawer]* Would you please explain *THAT*, to me?!
* **Richard Mylles:** So I brought these on the first day, um, because I thought we were going to be allowed them and turned out that we weren't allowed them. I put them in my drawer before we were told we weren't allowed them and I forgot they were there, and uh, I knew they were there for the last day, but um...
* **Mr. Perry:** You cannot have been oblivious to the fact that they were there. You have been *eating* them, not just "forgot they were there". You've been *eating* them.
* **Richard Mylles:** Yes, so I didn't know they were...
* **Mr. Perry:** You- Listen, I have spoken EVERYDAY about trust, I have spoken EVERYDAY about what you should have and what you shouldn't have. Go to the gymnasium and look through the bible and see if you can find anything about forgiveness! Do you understand me?
* **Richard Mylles:** Yes, sir.
* **Mr. Perry:** Thank you. Go there now. Speak to nobody else.

* He's a very good boy in many ways, and um, I suppose he's really shot himself in the foot.

* We will have a silent meal. Walne, if you don't want to be silent, you will go in detention this evening. Don't be stupid.
* Hughes, you can't cope with it either? Stand outside. If we have to weed out every idiot and blockhead from this room, we will do just that.
* McCready, Jewell, come and face the wall over here, and it was because you were talking, in case you hadn't noticed, when we're having a silent meal. Doesn't seem to mean anything to you.

* They're used to constant communication. They don't stop talking, or communicating with each other, and therefore, there's a total difference here.

### Episode 3

* **Mr. Perry:** *(speaking to the boys when it was found out they were masturbating on their sheets)* I want to...umm...talk to you about something that is not easy for me to talk about and probably even less easy for you to listen to perhaps. It’s a serious matter. Matron has reported to me that one of the laundry ladies has bid to see her to report soiled sheets, which I can only describe perhaps in another way as...sticky sheets. (Long pause) Now, I want to see you all basically because I’ve got...I’ve got to tell you this. I want no beastliness in this house. It has never been a part of school house, and it never will be. There just isn’t any room here for that sort of thing. We’re told in scriptures that self abuse, self gratification, is wrong. And it is. So you’re going to go to bed in silence and I will not be saying prayers tonight, prayers will be very personal. In some cases, it may be to assist you to fight weakness. If not, fine. If you are strong, then please pray for others. But this has no place in this house. Beastliness. Remember that.

* **Mr. Perry:** Where have you been?
* **Joe McCready:** I went to get my letters.
* **Mr. Perry:** I beg your pardon?
* **Joe McCready:** I went to get my letters, *sir.*
* **Mr. Perry:** From where?
* **Joe McCready:** From my dorm room.
* **Mr. Perry:** You *do not* go in the dormitories without permission!
* **Joe McCready:** Sorry, sir.
* **Mr. Perry:** You keep saying 'sorry' every time I speak to you. You're saying "Sorry, sir", "Sorry, sir", "Sorry, sir". It doesn't make it... it doesn't mean a thing! Now you could've come and asked me if you could go up in the dormitory, and secondly, you could have also thought before you sat down, that you needed your letters to reply to. It's about time that you started thinking about what you're supposed to be doing.
* **Joe McCready:** I didn't realise where he was, sir, so I actually left a note on the table as well, okay.
* **Mr. Perry:** Sit down. I should be seeing you in the headmaster's room during tomorrow. I will let you know what time. You do not have any free time this evening, when we finished letter writing, you will go back to the house, and stay in your dormitory.
* **Joe McCready:** I'll do that.
* **Mr. Perry:** I beg your pardon?
* **Joe McCready:** I'll do that.
* **Mr. Perry:** I'll do that...***SIR!!!!***
* **Joe McCready**: Yes, sir.

### Episode 4

* **Mr. Perry:** Come and stand in front of that table. Your back to the table, please. Thank you. Last week, your behaviour had reached a point where it was necessary to put you in isolation for a complete day. It appears that it hasn't worked. This weekend has quite frankly been very poor. Spitting, swearing, speaking out of turn, being disrespectful to staff, particularly Matron. Your behaviour has now become a major concern.
* *(shows the flashbacks of Joe's punishments and reprimands, cut back to the present)*
* **Mr. Perry:** I want to remind you that Kings School is a selective school. Here, we have standards, excellent standards of work and behaviour. You have failed to maintain those standards. You are expelled from Kings School, forthwith.
* **Joe McCready:** What? Why?
* **Mr. Perry:** Mr. Rockell! *(to Joe)* Please leave.

* *[after Joe McCready has been expelled]* Well, I suppose the final event was the staff meeting last night when it became apparent over the weekend he had singularly managed to upset 5 staff who were now finding they were putting more time into dealing with his behaviour, than to actually leading the group that they were trying to lead.
* On this occasion, it was decided that the group was more important than the single boy.

* *(after finding out that some of the contraband belongs to Matthew Sweeney)* I am speechless, Sweeney; *speechless*. I will deal with you later. At the moment, I am so angry that I am speechless. I cannot believe it of you. *[pause]* ***GET OUT!!!***