New Tricks (TV Series)

Talking to the Dead (2004)

Alun Armstrong: Brian Lane

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Quotes 

• Superintendent Sandra Pullman : [Pullman has caught PC Clarke acting as Tea Boy]  Hang on! I thought we had an understanding not using Clarke as a tea boy.

  Jack Halford : It was just a one-off.

  Brian Lane : [Brian enters]  Well, you wouldn't make it a two-off, would you, son? I'm parched.

  Superintendent Sandra Pullman : All right, make it a three-off. Coffee, please.

  [Gerry walks in, and spots the tray Clark is holding] 

  Gerry Standing : Whoa! Chocolate biscuits! Here, get us a cup of tea, son.

• Brian Lane : Dodgy case. Jostered evidence. Quiet words from on high. Surprise evaluations. Broken air conditioning, making the office an impossible place to work. If this isn't a conspiracy to close us once and for all, JFK was killed in the conservatory by Colonel Mustard with a length of bloody lead pipe.

• [last lines] 

  [about the possibility of Sandra taking a promotion] 

  Gerry Standing : She wouldn't, would she? I mean, what's SO-10 got that UCOS hasn't?

  Brian Lane : Well, not us for a start.

  Gerry Standing : [long pause]  Nah, she wouldn't.

• PC Clark : I've called maintenance three times. They just say they're looking into it.

  Brian Lane : No, *I'm* looking into it, Clarke. All they're doing is looking into looking into it.