- Zoe Reynolds: This came from Christine Dale, didn't it? And you're protecting her. What do you see in her, Tom?
- Danny Hunter: Californian, bright, hard bod.
- Zoe Reynolds: Yeah, thank you, Danny.
- Harry Pearce: What have you done? Have you destroyed one of my best men?
- Christine Dale: No!
- Harry Pearce: What are you? Some kind of old-style honeytrap?
- Christine Dale: I swear!
- Herb Ziegler: If you don't let this go, I'm telling you, Christine Dale will be jailed for leaking a top-secret communication.
- Tom Quinn: You would crucify one of your best officers to stop British Security? Why?
- Herb Ziegler: Let the big boys do what what they've gotta do, Tom, and Christine won't get hurt.
- Tom Quinn: [quoting telex] Translation reads: First voice, Shark arriving London Heathrow, what news of money?
- Christine Dale: Kaharias is Greek for shark.
- Tom Quinn: Second voice, The four million is on the mountains.
- Christine Dale: Switzerland.
- Tom Quinn: First voice, Please advise the movement of the British Eminence next 48 hours. Greetings from Algallah. Second voice, God is great. Record of satellite reception ends.
- Christine Dale: Algallah's a small village on the outskirts of Baghdad.
- Tom Quinn: Location of first caller, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Location of second caller, Wimbledon, London, UK. Action decided, extreme weather. Do not advise mice. Message ends. So, someone with Iraqi connection is hiring American hit man to come to London to kill an eminent man. We haven't had a sniff of this, Christine.
- Christine Dale: Of course not.
- Tom Quinn: What does extreme weather mean?
- Christine Dale: It's code for a CIA clandestine operation to desensitise an individual on foreign soil.
- Tom Quinn: Meaning kill.
- Christine Dale: Yeah.
- Tom Quinn: Okay, and who are the mice who are not to be told about this?
- Christine Dale: MI-5. It... Company joke, sorry.
- Tom Quinn: No, feel free.
- [first lines]
- Herb Ziegler: What's a man like Mickey Kaharias watching this for? Can't stand the real thing anymore?
- Michael Kaharias: The Feds watch the house. What do you want with me?
- Herb Ziegler: A very powerful man wishes to hire your services.
- Michael Kaharias: What's the job?
- Herb Ziegler: Killing an Englishman. There's one thing, though.
- Michael Kaharias: What?
- Herb Ziegler: We want you to do it dead.
- Ruth Evershed: Oh, Harry, I've been onto the FBI like you asked me. Uh, this American criminal, Michael The Shark Kaharias -- it's amazing what they call themselves -- well, he's dead. The FBI had a tip-off. His body was found in a storm drain in Miami three days ago.
- Harry Pearce: So Tom saw a dead man arrive at Heathrow. Come, now.
- Tom Quinn: What the CIA is doing is espionage as rape. They are trying to destroy my personal life with Christine. Why should I trust them with my country?
- Harry Pearce: I think Tom Quinn's on the blink.
- Ruth Evershed: Not Tom.
- Harry Pearce: He's been running an op on his own, for his own purposes, and I'm having nightmares about what they are.
- Ruth Evershed: What are you saying, he's acting against the interests of the service?
- Harry Pearce: Yes.
- Ruth Evershed: Harry, Tom Quinn is your brightest and best.
- Harry Pearce: It's the brightest and the best who can go bad so spectacularly.
- Tom Quinn: This is smoke and mirrors, Danny. Someone is spinning an illusion.
- Danny Hunter: Yeah. You.