New Tricks (TV Series)

Couldn't Organise One (2008)

Anthony Calf: D A C. Strickland

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  TV Reporter : [on TV]  After hearing the guilty verdict, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Robert Strickland gave this reaction.

  D A C Strickland : It is hard to comprehend how a detective of McAdam's rank and experience could have deceived his fellow officers for so long.

  Gerry Standing : 'Cause you were in charge of him, you pillock!

  D A C Strickland : We will now undertake a full and thorough review of all the major investigations led by DCI Mcadam during the last fifteen years.

  Brian Lane : Ouch.

  Jack Halford : Fifteen years.

  Gerry Standing : Pity the poor bastards who've got to sort that lot out.

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : [holding a thick file]  Yes, pity.

  Brian Lane : But it's nothing to do with us; those are all closed cases.

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : All except this one.

  Gerry Standing : No way!

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : You don't want to do it?

  Jack Halford : No.

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : Nineteen ninety-eight, a twenty-six-year-old named Graham Thompson drowned in a vat of beer. Felspar's Brewery, Hoxton - as in the still functioning, still making beer Felspar's.

  [pause] 

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : OK. Fair enough.

  Brian Lane : Felspar's. I must have drunk gallons of the stuff.

  Gerry Standing : We could have a *little* look.

  Jack Halford : Wouldn't hurt.