MI-5 (TV Series)

Without Incident (2003)

Matthew Macfadyen: Tom Quinn

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• [last lines] 

  Christine Dale : What do you know that I don't?

  Tom Quinn : [leaning in]  Lots of things.

  [Christine pulls him down onto the sofa for a snog] 

  Tony Blair : [on television with President George W. Bush]  Yet another example of the strength of the relationship between our two countries. It is a very strong relationship, a very special one.

• Tom Quinn : MI-5 oversees protection of the PM, Queen, and visiting dignitaries.

  Christine Dale : Not this one.

  Malcolm Wynn-Jones : Diplomatic protocol states quite clearly that the host government provides 95 percent of protection for presidential visits.

  Christine Dale : Not this President, not this visit. Václav Havel let us do it our way in Prague and we're doing it our way now. That means a complete adherence to US Secret Service close-protection protocol. Every rumour is to be treated as fact until neutralised. Every target is a potential assassin until dealt with. We'd like paranoia to be the norm here until our Commander in Chief is safely back in the skies. I'm sure you can understand that in the current climate. After he's gone, any residual distrust of others will, of course, be your own problem.

• Miranda : Personnel wanted a psychological topography of the department. They wanted to know who in this section could be classed as a theoretical weak link.

  Tom Quinn : And what were your findings?

  Miranda : There aren't any.

  Tom Quinn : I beg to differ. I think I'm looking at the weakest link right now.

• Tom Quinn : If the pilot's aiming straight for the roof of Chequers then...

  Harry Pearce : We can't shoot it down.

  Tom Quinn : --then we have to.

  Ruth Evershed : Not if it's carrying nuclear material.

  Tom Quinn : Who, whoever said anything about nuclear material?

  Harry Pearce : We have nothing credible on that score, however...

  Christine Dale : What goddamn nuclear material? Put the speaker on.

  Ruth Evershed : We cannot discount it completely. A known hitman sourcing raw material for a dirty bomb.

  Zoe Reynolds : No, we're putting two and two together to get 13. It is absolutely ludicrous.

  Ruth Evershed : No more ludicrous than crashing a plane into a building. Ask anyone how ludicrous that sounded on September the 10th, 2001.