Quotes
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : A reprimand is one thing. Humiliating junior ranks in front of senior officers is quite another.
DI Ronnie Box : I was putting her straight.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Indeed, and let me put you straight. I will be making express requests to Division the Hobbs case be taken back solely into Cowley's hands and you will not oppose it. Am I understood?
DI Ronnie Box : She was asking for it.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Don't ever let me hear you talk to one of my officers like that again. Hm.
DI Ronnie Box : Well, we all know you've got a bit of a soft spot for her, sir.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : I beg your pardon?
DI Ronnie Box : Proper little Chief Super's pet. Maybe that spot's not so soft, eh?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : One phone call from me to Division, you'll find yourself facing a disciplinary board.
DI Ronnie Box : Extension 388. Ask for the Chief Constable. It's a new world out there. By the book's all well and good. But it's fire with fire that gets results. Division knows it even if you don't.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Get out! Go on, before I forget myself! Get back... to whatever disgusting sewer you crawled out from! And don't ever dare to show your face in my station again. Or I promise you, you'll have cause to regret it.
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DCI Fred Thursday : So maybe the child isn't Don Mercer's. Maybe it's Marty Bedlo's.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Mrs Porter was sleeping with two men now besides her husband?
DCI Fred Thursday : It's just speculation, sir.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : I don't know what the world's come to. Truly I don't. A man would come by greater moral instruction in a monkey house.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Decent working man going about his lawful business cut down in as callous a manner as you please. We'll leave no stone unturned.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : So it's got nothing to do with the killing of Linda Gresham?
DCI Fred Thursday : No, sir. They just crept into her killer's shadow for cover.
DC George Fancy : To kill her sister for money, though, it's...
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : People have done far worse for much less, Constable.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : A breakthrough before the quarterly figures are submitted would be to the general weal.
DCI Fred Thursday : Any word about the future of the station yet, sir?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : None that has been confided to me. The survival of the fittest, Thursday. If we are useful, we will endure.