New Tricks (TV Series)

End of the Line (2011)

Peter Davison: Charles Allenforth

Quotes 

• Jack Halford : Mr Allenforth? Sorry, Mr Allenforth, just one more thing if you wouldn't mind?

  Charles Allenforth : One last thing.

  Jack Halford : [to Police Officer later named as John]  Give us a minute will you?

  Jack Halford : [to Charles Allenforth]  We know you murdered your brother. Oh, not you personally, I'm sure you always get somebody else to do your dirty work but that's not really what I wanted to talk about. These are the DNA profiles for you, your brother David and Mr. Peter Offord.

  Charles Allenforth : Fascinating, I'm sure.

  Jack Halford : Yes, particularly when you realise that you and your brother share the same mother but not the same father.

  Charles Allenforth : I'm sorry?

  Jack Halford : This morning I contacted the war records office at Kew and the Gloucestershire regiment - your father's old outfit. Peter David Allenforth was killed at Imjin, Korea on April the 23rd 1951 and you were born, erm...

  [Feigns thinking about it] 

  Charles Allenforth : March

  Jack Halford : March, March of the same year, that's right. Now according to the records your father was in Korea for 18 months straight before he was killed. In other words, he couldn't have been here when you were conceived therefore he couldn't be your real father.

  Charles Allenforth : [Angry]  Who the hell do you think you are?

  Jack Halford : Oh, I know who I am - that's the whole point. Now I can't prove that you murdered your brother but I can pass this DNA information on to Mr. Peter Offord who I suspect might want to be in touch. For although he is illegitimate, he is the son of the legitimate heir and I think that trumps you.

  [Turns and leaves disbelieving Mr Allenforth] 

  Jack Halford : John, escort this gentleman off the premises would you?