- Harry Pearce: Dear God, Ruth. Is any institution in this country safe from you?
- Ruth Evershed: I like to think not.
- Harry Pearce: [removing a pair of headphones] Horrible experience.
- Oliver Mace: Realistic Nihilistic is a jewel in the crown of British grunge.
- Harry Pearce: Is it?
- Oliver Mace: 15 million copies worldwide.
- Harry Pearce: Beggars belief.
- [last lines]
- Adam Carter: You know, a minister resigned today as well.
- Michelle Molby: Oh, that pathetic little man and his whinging about his family? It was buried by the Riff and B suicide.
- Adam Carter: Deliberately buried. Downing Street covered it up.
- [pulling out a folder of incriminating evidence]
- Adam Carter: This is a present from Harry Pearce, strictly non-attributable. Send it to the police, print the story, Sylvester goes to prison. Think you'll use it?
- Michelle Molby: Maybe around election time.
- Harry Pearce: How is Fiona?
- Adam Carter: She's okay. Still in a hospital.
- Danny Hunter: [seeing Fiona in the office] Ah, I don't think she is.
- Adam Carter: Oh, no...
- [Fiona enters the meeting room]
- Adam Carter: Fi.
- Fiona Carter: [to Adam] You, come.
- [to the others]
- Fiona Carter: I've put in a claim to Special Contingencies.
- Harry Pearce: I don't think I can say...
- Fiona Carter: It's alright. Adam and I are going home now.
- Danny Hunter: Harry, why are we investigating this? It's, it's a police job.
- Harry Pearce: Do you understand atomic theory? Quantum mechanics. How there are six extra dimensions and infinite universes parallel to this one?
- Danny Hunter: No.
- Harry Pearce: Nor do I. I don't understand politics, either.
- Fiona Carter: Um, Malcolm, um, do you have a substitute for the cocaine, you know, something harmless I can take in case I get myself in a situation?
- Malcolm Wynn-Jones: Section G have concocted this. Harmless, but it'll give you a convincing nasal discharge.
- Fiona Carter: Lovely.
- Adam Carter: Riff, I know I'm just a security man and everything, but can I, can I say something like a friend?
- Riff: Yeah.
- Adam Carter: Stay straight today. You've gotta get Alfie back.
- Riff: [pauses] Yeah, you're right. I'll just, I'll just do vodka.
- Riff: [singing as the front man of a grunge rock band] Realistic. Nihilistic. Yeah. Twisting my views. On the six o'clock news. Light up the skies. On the 4th of July.
- Adam Carter: I've never handled a kidnapping before.
- Harry Pearce: In this we are all virginal.
- [giving Adam a binder]
- Harry Pearce: Abduction Procedures, the Police Kidnap Unit's bible. Read it and speedily digest.