Dennis Waterman credited as playing...
Gerry Standing
- Gerry Standing: [about an old bus] God, it takes you back, doesn't it? You know it was on the top deck of one of these in 1961 I had my first adult experience.
- Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman: I don't think I want to know about that.
- Gerry Standing: I smoked a Woodbine!
- [first lines]
- Police Officer: [to Brian, who is breathing heavily at the foot of a ladder] Go on. You can do it. Sir.
- Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman: When the builders found this, they called the local police who threw it up to us when they realized it was relevant to an old murder case.
- Jack Halford: How long was the trap door secured?
- Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman: Ah, the builders reckon the false ceiling was put in sometime in the fifties.
- Gerry Standing: And any time after that it would have been Artexed over.
- Brian Lane: [half-way into the attic] Oh, bloody hell, I can't do this. Confined space. Doctor's orders.
- Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman: It's all right, Brian, you don't have to come all the way up; you can watch from there.
- Gerry Standing: My three marriages went sideways 'cause I was always firing after glamorous, glitzy blondes, but with you it's different.
- June Parker: Oh, yeah?
- Gerry Standing: Oh, definitely. I mean, you're not my type at all.
- June Parker: Oh, that's terrific, Gerry. Thank you very-
- Gerry Standing: Oh no no no, I didn't mean that at all. I didn't mean-
- June Parker: Sh-sh-sh. When you're in a hole, stop digging.
- [last lines]
- Gerry Standing: There is a bit of justice left in the world.
- D.A.C. Strickland: Never mind about justice. The point is how the hell did Hannah Parker get hold of our half of the document, eh?
- Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman: Nothing to do with me, sir, I can assure you of that.
- D.A.C. Strickland: [answering his mobile] Strickland.
- D.A.C. Strickland: Yes. Thanks.
- [closes mobile]
- D.A.C. Strickland: Hannah Parker is on the BBC news.
- Hannah Parker: [on TV] I'm not prepared to reveal my sources. But I will say that even in the most reactionary, corrupt, and incompetent institutions, that there are one or two individuals who still know the meaning of integrity.
- Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman: [a criminal arrives home to find a Police raid in progress] That's him!
- Jack Halford: Didn't they make a wrong-number phone call to make sure he was in?
- Gerry Standing: What do they teach the kids these days?
- Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman: [the suspect drives off at high speed] Drive, Jack!
- Jack Halford: This is no job for a man on beta-blockers.