- Jools Siviter: Well, the trouble with whistleblowers is that they do tend to play their own tune.
- Harry Pearce: Do you distrust Maynard?
- Jools Siviter: I find there's an ambiguity there. Well, mustn't miss the ride of the Valkyrie. Nice to see you gentlemen working so late. I'm glad someone's running the country while the rest of us are at the opera.
- Harry Pearce: This better be about something big.
- Hampton Wilder: How about the fall of the government.
- Harry Pearce: Well, that concludes things.
- Richard Maynard: Then, on behalf of my colleagues I'd like to thank you for this briefing. So reassuringly alarming.
- Danny Hunter: Sergeant Malhorn has been suspended from duty and at this moment is having a nasty experience with Special Branch.
- Mark Hodd: You can't do this.
- Danny Hunter: We can't do everything we'd like but we can do a great deal.
- Jools Siviter: You seem to have every security service in the world claiming they own you. Maybe we should have a special tie. The 'I ran Sergei Lermov Club'.
- Jools Siviter: So what did the children want?
- Sergei Lermov: A name.
- Jools Siviter: Well they certainly seem to have you rattled. Well, come on! Don't prick-tease, you Russian baboon! What name?
- Sergei Lermov: They wanted to know if I had dealings with Richard Maynard.
- Jools Siviter: Did they now?
- Woman: [Jools's phone rings during the opera. He starts texting a reply] Do you mind awfully not doing that?
- Jools Siviter: Are you a Nazi, Madam?
- Woman: I beg your pardon?
- Jools Siviter: I mean, we Wagner fans are a rum lot. I myself bugger skinheads, so kindly don't tell me what I can and cannot do.
- Danny Hunter: So Tess has been taking you into her confidence.
- Zoe Reynolds: She gave me money.
- Danny Hunter: You mean the ten grand next door, behind the plug socket?
- Jools Siviter: There is someone in this building who is seriously disloyal. I could be looking at him or her right now.
- Harry Pearce: That is a very serious allegation to level at your sister service.
- Jools Siviter: Well my sister should be bent over and given a good whack on the behind!
- Harry Pearce: I don't find that helpful.
- Jools Siviter: Helpful? You get an excellent asset of mine killed and you want my help!
- Jools Siviter: It has been a very, very long night. The death of an agent, possibly the worst production of Wagner I've ever seen. God, the Valkyrie were all dressed in scuba gear.
- Harry Pearce: I think I may have to have drinkies with Mr Siviter.
- Tom Quinn: And I think this thing stinks to high heaven. Have they just destroyed a good man?
- Harry Pearce: Don't brood, Tom. Politicians are conniving, wheeler-dealing scum. Don't have a fit of morals over them, they wouldn't over you.
- Tom Quinn: You lied about Richard Maynard.
- Hampton Wilder: I don't think He'll ever forgive me.
- Tom Quinn: Nor do I. You destroyed his career.
- Hampton Wilder: I didn't mean him.
- Hampton Wilder: And now I bitterly repent writing that book.
- Harry Pearce: Then why didn't you burn it?
- Hampton Wilder: I couldn't.
- Harry Pearce: Why not?
- Hampton Wilder: I went to its hiding place, and it had gone.
- Harry Pearce: Gone?
- Hampton Wilder: This may come as a surprise to you, but prison is full of thieves.
- Tessa Phillips: The man lies as naturally as the rest of us breathe. Oh, what the hell.
- Harry Pearce: You don't get it, Tess.
- Tessa Phillips: Get what?
- Harry Pearce: It's not about whether Wilder's memoirs are telling the truth about Richard Maynard or even if they exist. It's about the damage the very idea of them can do. That's how scandal works.
- Tessa Phillips: Well, then he's way ahead. He's got us digging up prison gardens and fingering the prime minister's best friend.
- Harry Pearce: What do you suggest we do? Ignore the whole thing? We've got to check Maynard out.