New Tricks (TV Series)

Old Fossils (2011)

Vicki Pepperdine: Madeleine Simmonds

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  [Gerry has asked Madeleine Simmonds to identify a fossil that he has "borrowed" from one of his ex-wives, hoping that it will be worth a lot of money] 

  Madeleine Simmonds : It's coprolite.

  Madeleine Simmonds : [excited]  Is it?

  Brian Lane : Coprolite.

  Gerry Standing : Yeah, I own a coprolite. So between ourselves, could you give me a rough, ball-park figure of what I might hope to get for it?

  Madeleine Simmonds : Well, someone with a scatological sense of humour might offer you a few quid to have it as a conversation piece.

  Gerry Standing : [horrified]  A few quid? But it's thousands of years old!

  Madeleine Simmonds : Oh yes, it's old all right, but it's not all that uncommon. Coprolite is fossilised animal dung.

  Gerry Standing : Shit!

  Madeleine Simmonds : Precisely.

  Gerry Standing : I don't want it.

  [Gerry hands the coprolite to Brian who sniffs it]