Derek Francis: Jack Carter

Quotes 

• [Carter and the gang have staged a practice hijacking of a lorry] 

  Jack Carter : Well you can get out the picnic things, Pete. All this fresh air has given me an appetite.

• [Carter and the gang have staged a practice hijacking of a lorry, and Carter has timed it] 

  Jack Carter : Well, Bluey, how do you think it went?

  Bluey : A real geezer would struggle a lot more than Joe did. He'd kick out, an' all.

  Jack Carter : I reckon it should add four to five seconds to the time - no more.

  Bluey : [grimly]  Be a lot faster if I bent an iron bar round his head.

  Jack Carter : [reproachfully]  Bluey. We have been over all this. In law, this is simple robbery. You start messing about with an iron bar and it becomes robbery with violence - and an extra two to three years inside if we're caught.