MI-5 (TV Series)

Without Incident (2003)

Peter Firth: Harry Pearce

Quotes 

• Ruth Evershed : They're sending it here.

  Harry Pearce : What?

  Ruth Evershed : You said, tell Customs to open a crate. So I did, and now they've told me they've had a look and there's a problem and they're sending it here.

  Harry Pearce : A Libyan problem?

  Ruth Evershed : They're not saying, which scares me.

• Ruth Evershed : There are two issues here. One, we're getting a lot of chatter at the Libyan embassy.

  Harry Pearce : What kind of chatter?

  Ruth Evershed : Lot of euphemisms for America being bandied around, several vehicles trying very hard to lose their tails. There's not been anything on this scale since '84.

  Harry Pearce : Any indication of concrete plans?

  Ruth Evershed : It's all disguised as everyday diplomatic traffic, Harry, but I don't like it one bit, which brings us to two. A deal memo, in the rough, of course, between the US and Libya.

  Malcolm Wynn-Jones : They accept responsibility for Lockerbie, and pay seven billion dollars in reparations. The Americans end unilateral sanctions and help to remove them from the Axis of Evil, amongst other things.

  Harry Pearce : No mention of reparation for UK victims?

  Ruth Evershed : None at all.

• Tom Quinn : If the pilot's aiming straight for the roof of Chequers then...

  Harry Pearce : We can't shoot it down.

  Tom Quinn : --then we have to.

  Ruth Evershed : Not if it's carrying nuclear material.

  Tom Quinn : Who, whoever said anything about nuclear material?

  Harry Pearce : We have nothing credible on that score, however...

  Christine Dale : What goddamn nuclear material? Put the speaker on.

  Ruth Evershed : We cannot discount it completely. A known hitman sourcing raw material for a dirty bomb.

  Zoe Reynolds : No, we're putting two and two together to get 13. It is absolutely ludicrous.

  Ruth Evershed : No more ludicrous than crashing a plane into a building. Ask anyone how ludicrous that sounded on September the 10th, 2001.