New Tricks (TV Series)

End of the Line (2011)

Alun Armstrong: Brian Lane

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Quotes 

• Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : [about the unidentified victim]  And actually, can we stop referring to him as 'him' or 'the victim'. Let's dignify him with a name or something.

  Brian Lane : Tom.

  Jack Halford : Dick.

  Jack Halford , Gerry Standing , Brian Lane : Harry!

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : Harry.

• Brian Lane : How did someone like me end up with someone as gorgeous and fantastic as you?

  Esther Lane : [pretending to be smug]  That's a question I often ask myself.

• [last lines] 

  Brian Lane : What's wrong?

  Jack Halford : Don't know. Won't start. I don't believe it; the battery's dead!

  Brian Lane : That's all right; we'll take the tube.

  Jack Halford : [yells]  Taxi!

• [first lines] 

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : Last week, Peter Offord, a forty-three-year-old plumber, was arrested on suspicion of a warehouse robbery in Wembley, but his DNA didn't match any found at the scene. However, it did show a link to a man found strangled on a tube train *here* in March ninety-six. Dead man's identity has never been established.

  Jack Halford : Until now?

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : Turns out Peter Offord was that murder victim's son.

  Gerry Standing : Yeah? How'd he react to that?

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : Never knew his dad, apparently; he was brought up alone by his mum.

  Gerry Standing : Hmh.

  Brian Lane : But I don't understand; if this fellow died on the tube, then surely this is one for the British Transport Police.

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : Yeah, well, since two thousand two, the Commissioner and the Transport Police Chief Constable confer on such cases, and it's been mutually agreed that UCOS should take this one on.

  Gerry Standing : What she means is it's been dumped on us.

  Jack Halford : Any scene of crime photos?

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : Nope.

  Jack Halford : List of suspects?

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : No scene of crime photos, no list of suspects and we don't even know the victim's name.

  Gerry Standing : Well, what happened to him?

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : He was strangled face to face.

  Gerry Standing : What sort of bloke was he?

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : A vagrant.

  Brian Lane : What, a tramp?

  Gerry Standing : Oh, great!