New Tricks (TV Series)

Talking to the Dead (2004)

Amanda Redman: Sandra Pullman

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.

• Sandra Pullman : So, this, um... this physical and psychological evaluation my boys are undertaking the day after tomorrow?

  Donald Bevan : Yeah, what about it?

  Sandra Pullman : Well, they suspect that it might be someone trying to rip the guts out of UCOS, perhaps even close it down completely.

  Donald Bevan : Ah, your clear-up rate is embarrassing some people, Sandra. Your success now questions their competence then. I mean, you only want to review some of the cases you've cracked. You've put special branch's nose out of joint by revealing they had a mole inside New Labour; you've exposed police racism; very nearly destroyed a prestigious golf club, ruining the reputation of a war hero into the bargain. Some establishment toes are feeling distinctly stepped upon.

  Sandra Pullman : Not my problem.

  Donald Bevan : You never were very good at the politics, Sandra.

  Sandra Pullman : With all due respect, sir, that's like criticizing someone for not being a very good arsehole.

• Asst. Commissioner Bob Mullen : SO-10 is a completely different world than UCOS. All the villains are still out there just waiting to be caught.

  Superintendent Sandra Pullman : Including Martin Lombard. If you're right.

  Asst. Commissioner Bob Mullen : If we couldn't break him back then with a crack squad, I fail to see how you will now with Dad's Army.