- Brian Lane: [entering Hanson's estate] In a lifetime of bad ideas, this has got to be your very worst. We shouldn't be here.
- Gerry Standing: You think being in his garden is as bad as it's going to get? Let's have a drink.
- Brian Lane: Listen, if we go in there now, we're the ones breaking the law. The days of swanning into villains' houses and fronting it out are over, Gerry.
- Gerry Standing: Yeah, you're right. I feel thirty years younger. Come on.
- [first lines]
- Gerry Standing: What're we doing here?
- Emily Driscoll: It's a surprise. Come on.
- Gerry Standing: Oh, all right.
- [to doorman]
- Gerry Standing: Hiya.
- Emily Driscoll: So, what do you think?
- Gerry Standing: It's great.
- Emily Driscoll: Ah, there they are.
- Gerry Standing: You didn't drag them here as well!
- Emily Driscoll: Of course! It is your birthday.
- D.C.S. Frank Paterson: Detective Superintendent Pullman, from the clean-up squad.
- Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman: We prefer UCOS.
- D.C.S. Frank Paterson: Course you do, sweetheart. No Gerry? How is the old sod?
- Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman: I doubt he's changed much since you knew him, sir, but he did learn the hard way not to call me sweetheart.