New Tricks (TV Series)
End of the Line (2011)
Dennis Waterman: Gerry Standing
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Quotes
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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.
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[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!