The Sweeney (TV Series)

Night Out (1975)

John Thaw: Regan

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Quotes 

• Iris Long : You wouldn't cross the street to say hello to me if I lay naked on a zebra crossing.

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Look, Iris, the world does not revolve round your body - this bloke Gallileo proved it: it goes round the sun.

• [Regan has been summoned to a meeting with Superintendent Grant on his day off. DS Jellineck is taking him to Grant's office] 

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : [sarcastically]  I really appreciate this, Sergeant. I was going to be spending a dull afternoon watching Fulham play.

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : How long have you worked for Superintendent Grant?

  Det. Sgt. Jellineck : Six months. For my money he's the best superintendent a DS could have.

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : There *is* a certain amount of wastage amongst his personnel. I mean his men keep dying on him. It's pretty dangerous working for Grant, isn't it?

  Det. Sgt. Jellineck : We have the highest arrest rate in the Met.

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Yeah - cardiac arrest.

• [talking about Grant] 

  Det. Sgt. Jellineck : Sometimes I think he's his own worst enemy.

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : [grimly]  Not while I'm around!

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Get dressed.

  Iris Long : All right. What do you think I should wear? Something inexpensive cos of the bullet holes? Or something dark so it doesn't show the blood?

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Stop pretending you're on the bloody game. You'd *like* to be, but you don't have the application. Why don't you just rest on your reputation as a good lay, and leave it at that.

• Iris Long : You're getting hysterical.

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : I'm not gettin' hysterical. I'm gettin' trrified.

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : All right, you tell m why I'm here.

  Iris Long : Because you wanted to combine business with pleasure. That's plain, isn't it?

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Look, Iris, the world does not revolve around your body. This bloke Galileo proved it goes round the sun.

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : [angrily to Grant]  This is just another of your crap-up schemes that sen many a keen young jack to his grave! Well, I'm havin' nothin' to do with it! Nothin'!