- Det. Sgt. Hobson: [after another berating] Will that be all, sir?
- Chief Supt. Forrest: No! I haven't finished humiliating you yet! Oh, look, son - you think I've got it in for you because you're a graduate copper, eh? You think it's arse-about-face snobbery because you've got a university degree and I haven't?
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: No, sir - I don't think that!
- Chief Supt. Forrest: Oh, good because it isn't that. It's just personal: I don't like you and I think you're useless at the job. Resentment about your education doesn't come into it. Understood?
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: Understood.
- Chief Supt. Forrest: Also, you didn't tell me you wanted to nick Big Al. You must understand that if you want to nick Big Al, there's only one way to do it...
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: [Interrupting] Plant some evidence and fit him up?
- Chief Supt. Forrest: I am astonished to hear you suggest such an approach, Hobson!
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: Oh! It wasn't a serious proposal, sir. It's just a theory I've heard expressed by some of my colleagues.
- Chief Supt. Forrest: We do not plant evidence or fit people up, Hobson!
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: Of course not, sir!
- Chief Supt. Forrest: Except in one very precise situation which does not, at this moment, arise.
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: May I ask what situation that might be?
- Chief Supt. Forrest: You may.
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: [after a few moments, having expected Chief Supt. Forrest to expound] What situation might that be?
- Chief Supt. Forrest: We fit people up, Hobson, when I order it to be done. In the case of Big Al, I will give no such order. There is such a thing as integrity even in this day and age.
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: I find that very reassuring.
- Chief Supt. Forrest: That's all, Hobson. I may decide to shout at you again later.
- Helen: [On Trevor and Jill's relationship] You live together?
- Trevor Chaplin: Not all the time. Just Tuesdays and Thursdays, alternate weeks.
- Helen: Do you still have your flat?
- Trevor Chaplin: Oh, yes, I like to run back to my little heap of squalour every now and again!
- Helen: You've got no soul!
- Trevor Chaplin: Where I was brought up, we were too poor to have them! I think some of the Catholic kids had souls but...
- Helen: You're prejudiced!
- Trevor Chaplin: No I'm not - just ignorant!
- Jill Swinburne: [On being asked why she allowed Helen to stay overnight] Do you want a straight answer, Mr Chaplin?
- Trevor Chaplin: Don't know yet. You tell it me and I'll let you know afterwards.
- Jill Swinburne: The alternative to letting Helen staying the night was for you to give her a lift home to Tadcaster.
- Trevor Chaplin: Yes, I suppose so.
- Jill Swinburne: I thought that was NOT a good idea.
- Trevor Chaplin: Me being alone with her?
- Jill Swinburne: Uh-huh. She's very vulnerable at the moment.
- Trevor Chaplin: I'm vulnerable all the time!
- Jill Swinburne: Well that's another reason!
- Mr. Carter: [Trevor has had to abandon his school lunch to meet his "brother"] He hasn't got a brother!
- Jill Swinburne: [Similarly puzzled] Neither have I but I don't let it spoil my lunchtime... I let the food do that!
- Mr. Carter: And he has an ex-girlfriend?
- Jill Swinburne: From Tadcaster.
- Mr. Carter: That means, including you, there have been two women in his life. That's a surprisingly good career record for a fellow like Chaplin, wouldn't you think?
- Jill Swinburne: He was starved of affection as a child.
- Mr. Carter: Really?
- Jill Swinburne: Never had a brother!
- Trevor Chaplin: [to Big Al After bundling Harry the supergrass into the back of the van] Where to? Cuba?
- Big Al: [Playing along] Yes... but call at the office on the way.
- Harry: [Held for interrogation in Big Al's shed] What happens now?
- Big Al: I'm deciding. We'll start with... a cup of tea!
- Harry: [Bewildered] Cup of tea!
- Big Al: Yes - a cup of tea. It's the way these organisations operate - two-handed. One of us is gentle, kind, courteous, solicitous and the other one's the HARD man!
- Harry: [Frightened] Is that right?
- Big Al: [Referring to Trevor] Well you've heard him speak: he's a Geordie... and you know what bastards they can be!
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: [On Big Al] Do you trust that man?
- Rev. Booth: [Referring to the Bible] I trust everybody - it says to in The Book.
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: Hmmm... alas I have to work with a different book!
- Rev. Booth: [Very angry on being told that Big Al's merchandise can no longer be held in the church] Not allowed?
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: I'm afraid not.
- Rev. Booth: On what basis?
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: The law.
- Rev. Booth: Whose law? God's?
- Det. Sgt. Hobson: The Town Hall's.
- Rev. Booth: [Deflated resignation] I know when I'm beaten.
- Harry: [Unwilling to admit to being a supergrass] Supposing I refuse to testify on account I might incriminate myself?
- Big Al: [Referring to Trevor] My friend here will 'persuade' you!
- Harry: [Unconvinced] Oh aye?
- Big Al: [to Trevor] Give him an example, son.
- Trevor Chaplin: [Adopts a 'psycho' bearing] Right!...
- Big Al: [as Trevor pauses] Well, what are you waiting for?... Oh, I'd forgotten: it's a long time since we carried out one of these operations. I usually leave the room while my colleague does the necessary.
- Trevor Chaplin: [to Harry after Big Al steps outside] Now I don't like hurting people, right?
- Harry: Good!
- Trevor Chaplin: That is, I don't mind inflicting a bit of pain in a good cause. But it's the noise that bothers me, you know what I mean? Screaming and such. In fact I'm a bit of a softie as far as people are concerned.
- Harry: I'm the same myself.
- Trevor Chaplin: [Implying Harry's beloved dog, Jason] Whereas animals - dogs and things...
- Harry: Dogs?
- Trevor Chaplin: Yes, dogs...
- Harry: You wouldn't do anything to Jason, would you?
- Trevor Chaplin: I wouldn't... but Little Norm doesn't go much on dogs. Bad experience as a lad: Alsation, I think it was.
- Harry: Well now Jason isn't an Alsation... he isn't anything, really.
- Trevor Chaplin: I should think he'll take it in easy stages. That's what we arranged: the longer you are in answering the questions, the less considerate Norm is likely to be with the dog. Yes, he'll take it in stages, every half-hour on the hour and the half-hour.
- Harry: [Nervous, now finally convinced] Alright, I'll answer your questions.
- Trevor Chaplin: [Calling out to Big Al] We're ready!
- Big Al: [Re-enters] You've reached an understanding?
- Trevor Chaplin: I've told him Little Norm will just about moving into Stage 1.
- Big Al: [Puzzled at first then understanding the bluff] Oh?... Oh, aye, bound to be!