- [first lines]
- Trainer: So, to sum up: Creative Problem Solving. Techniques that allow us to move forward as individuals, as teams, as an organization.
- Gerry Standing: [standing] Right.
- Trainer: One last thing before we finish.
- [Gerry sighs and sits down]
- Trainer: Could you stand up, please. Right.
- [holding a large soda bottle]
- Trainer: You catch it; you come up with a new use for it. If you get stuck, use the check-list. Don't censor.
- Supt. Sandra Pullman: [catches the bottle] Um, cut the bottom off, attach four strings, tie them to a silk canopy: hot air balloon.
- Trainer: Great.
- [Amanda tosses the bottle to Brian]
- Brian Lane: Sterilize, crush, melt and mince a hundred bottles providing fibrous polyester strands which we weave into a fleece.
- [tosses the bottle to Gerry]
- Gerry Standing: Um... Nah, I'm sorry, me brains gone blank.
- Trainer: Relax; use the check-list. You have an idea, Gerry.
- Gerry Standing: Huh. No, I haven't.
- Trainer: If it's sexual, perfectly normal.
- Gerry Standing: No, I'm sorry, sweetheart; nothing.
- Trainer: Don't block, Gerry.
- Gerry Standing: I'm not.
- Trainer: You have the answer.
- Gerry Standing: I haven't!
- Trainer: What are you holding?
- Gerry Standing: Eh?
- Trainer: Say it, Gerry!
- Gerry Standing: What?
- Trainer: What's in your hand?
- Gerry Standing: It's a bottle, for Christ's sake!
- Gerry Standing: [Gerry has been badly beaten] Cor blimey, I don't remember it hurting this much before.
- Supt. Sandra Pullman: Well, that's age dulling the memory.
- Gerry Standing: Oh, thanks very much.
- [last lines]
- Supt. Sandra Pullman: [Brian is trying to open the office safe] What's the problem?
- Brian Lane: I can't remember the number.