- [Gently and Bacchus visit a seedy nightclub to arrest a suspect. A skinhead confronts them]
- George Gently: Bovver boots, slaphead, your granddad's braces and a choirboy shirt. No, I give up. What have you come as?
- [Gently head-butts the skinhead and continues into the club]
- John Bacchus: It's getting to where I don't even understand the crimes anymore.
- George Gently: They told my generation, "Keep your nose clean, work hard." Young people today know that's a lie. What if these toe rags are the future, John? What then?