New Tricks (TV Series)
Lost in Translation (2011)
James Bolam: Jack Halford
Quotes
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[last lines]
Jack Halford : Who would like another drink?
Gerry Standing : Whoa, not for me, thanks. Gotta run.
Brian Lane : Got another cooking class?
Gerry Standing : No, I've been invited to an oenological event.
Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman : A what?
Brian Lane : Wine-tasting.
Gerry Standing : Vintage wine. Which, like women, get better with age.
Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman : Thanks, Gerry.
Jack Halford : I'm not sure he was talking about *you*.
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Jack Halford : [Discussing the possibility that a murder victim was posed as a human scarecrow] You and your theories.
Brian Lane : It's a good theory
Gerry Standing : Mind you, it'd be a good job for you.
Brian Lane : Why?
Gerry Standing : [Pointing at Brian's clothes] Well you've got all the gear for it.
Brian Lane : If I was in sackcloth I'd be twice the man you are.
Gerry Standing : You'd certainly frighten all the birds away.
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Gerry Standing : Didn't know you spoke French.
Jack Halford : I'm full of surprises, me. As are you apparently. "Of all the stores in all the world..."
Gerry Standing : Eh?
Jack Halford : Never mind.
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Gerry Standing : [about Genevieve] I think I might ask her out.
Jack Halford : Why not? An attractive, stylish, sophisticated French woman and you. Why not; would that go wrong?
Gerry Standing : Exactly.
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Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman : She just sat down and told us how she followed David, how she took him by surprise.
Jack Halford : She smiled when she did it.
Brian Lane : She was proud of what happened.
Gerry Standing : Yeah, she avenged her father. Upheld the family honour.
Jack Halford : I could call it a lot of things, but honourable wouldn't be one of them.