New Tricks (TV Series)

The Chinese Job (2003)

Amanda Redman: Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman

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Quotes 

• [Sandra goes to see Jack and finds him practising his golf shots in the garden - and that he already knows about the incident when she shot the dog during the raid on the Chinese gambling ring] 

  Jack Halford : Was he armed?

  Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman : Who?

  Jack Halford : The dog.

• [Halford is going through photographs of ex-CID officers that Sandra is considering for her new UCOS team] 

  Jack Halford : Dead! Dead!

  Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman : [seeing one of the photos]  John Fowlie - ooh, I know John.

  Jack Halford : Dead!

  Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman : But he only left last December.

  Jack Halford : Heart attack, swimming in the sea off Malaga. Serves him right - place is full of villains. Sixty-five percent of CID officers are dead within five years of leaving the job.

  [Jack continues to flip through the photos] 

  Jack Halford : Dead! Dead! As good as! Alive - but he bores for England! Retired - but currently under investigation by the CPS! Dead! Alive - but never leave him alone with your kids! Retired sick - well, insane really. Dead! Dead! Would be if I got hold of him!

• [Sandra and Jack are interviewing retired detectives to join UCOS] 

  [first candidate comes into the inteview room] 

  Racist Ex-Detective : [leaning menacingly on the back of his chair]  Just before we start... This new unit... No blacks, obviously?

  [next candidate comes in] 

  Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman : Now you didn't officially retire, and yet I can't see any references to why you left the force. Why's that?

  Drunk Ex-Detective : [slurring]  Absolutely no bloody idea at all.

  [he gets up, lurches towards the window, then realises he is going the wrong way and makes for the door; next candidate comes in] 

  Vicious Ex-Detective : Police and Criminal Evidence Act? Mistake! I mean, being able to threaten, intimidate and cause pain to a suspect are the chief weapons in a copper's armoury. Right?

  [door opens, candidate sees Sandra and Jack, and he turns round to leave immediately] 

  Scots Ex-Detective : Aaaah. Shite!