Imaginary Latvian Market Inspector
in the BBC soap opera “EastEnders” (2014–2015)
Roxy: Ta-da! Happy name day!
Aleks: How do you know about name day?
Roxy: Because I’m not just a pretty face. Now make a wish. Or is that just something we just do here.
Aleks: [Laughs, blows out candles.]
Roxy: Sit, sit. Now, I have got sauerkraut, I have got the weird bread you are always banging on about.
Aleks: That’s very sweet. Unexpected. You know, it’s not my name day today.
Roxy: Yes, I know. It’s the seventeenth. I wanted to do something nice for you, and it’s the right month, isn’t it?
Aleks: It’s not Latvian bread.
Roxy: Right. You know what, I was just trying to get to know you better. But I shouldn’t have bothered.
Aleks: Roxy, Roxy, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean… It’s lovely, really. Cheers.
Roxy: Cheers. How’s this ever going to work? I’m a loudmouthed Londoner. You’re from a country where they eat pickled bleeding cabbage!
Aleks: What does that matter?
Roxy: Because there are all these things about you that I don’t know. There are all these blanks!
Aleks: Fire away. Shoot.
Roxy: OK, um…did your mum make you a cake back home?
Aleks: Yeah, sure! Biezpienmaize! Kind of a cheesecake. Delicious!
Roxy: Girlfriends.
Aleks: Girlfriends?
Roxy: You must have had some before you came here.
Aleks: Nothing serious.
Roxy: Never wanted to settle down? Have kids?
Aleks: Never met the right person. Until now.
Roxy: So we’re serious, are we?
Aleks: I think so. Don’t you? I don’t think we are very different. Now, how about I pop out and get us a nice bottle of wine to wash this lovely cake down with.
Roxy: There’s one more here.
Aleks: Yeah, I was thinking about something with a bit more body. Yeah?
