- [first lines]
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: I'm sorry, Jack, this case is neither unsolved nor open. Peter Edelmann committed suicide.
- Jack Halford: Derek always thought there was more to it than that.
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: Yes, a lot more according to his files and none of it remotely plausible.
- Jack Halford: Look, I'd be the first to admit some of Derek's theories were a bit...
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: I know he was a friend, Jack.
- Jack Halford: This is not about friendship, Sandra; it's about loyalty. A fellow police officer whose name's about to be dragged through the mud...
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: Jack, if we take this case on, all that happens is that we end up looking every bit as crazy as Derek.
- Jack Halford: Well, where's the harm in looking through the files unofficially? He may have missed something.
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: Be honest, Jack. If this file landed on your desk and you'd never even heard the name Derek Brook...
- Jack Halford: I know, I know, I'd think he was several sandwiches short of a picnic. But I knew Derek, and he was a good detective, and if he thought that Edelmann's death was suspicious he must have had grounds for it!
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: [pause] OK then. Put it on the board.
- Jack Halford: Thank you.
- [Gerry had a date with Melissa the night before]
- Jack Halford: This poor woman actually agreed to go and have a drink with you?
- Gerry Standing: Agreed? *She* asked *me*.
- Brian Lane: Isn't it a bit dangerous for someone with a severe visual impairment to be riding a bike in London?
- Jack Halford: She could get her white stick caught in the spokes.
- [Jack and Brian laugh. Sandra walks into the room]
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: What's so funny?
- Gerry Standing: Nothing.
- Brian Lane: Gerry's been asked out on a date by a forty-five-year-old.
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: Woman?
- Gerry Standing: Very funny. She happens to be gorgeous.
- Brian Lane: With a thing for older men.
- Jack Halford: *Much* older.
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: Maybe she's just looking for a man with wisdom and experience.
- Gerry Standing: Thank you, Sandra.
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: ...And she thinks Gerry might know one.
- [Sandra, Jack and Brian laugh uproariously. Gerry walks off in a huff]
- Jack Halford: Look at all this! Flying saucers and aliens! Proof doesn't come into it.
- David Beaumont: Mr Halford, he doesn't believe in the possibility of intelligent life on other planets.
- Jack Halford: Mr Halford is beginning to doubt the possibility of intelligent life on this one!
- [last lines]
- Gerry Standing: [pointing at Brian] He thinks it was aliens
- Brian Lane: I'm just saying we've no proof to support one version of events over another. Maybe there are more things in heaven and whatnot...
- Jack Halford: His mechanism's gone.
- Gerry Standing: He should phone home.
- Brian Lane: Yeah, well, you believe what you like. But when whatever it is comes crawling out of them woods bent on world domination, then you'll all be sorry.
- Brian Lane: This is a colleague's reputation on the line!
- Gerry Standing: No, this is a massive forest full of bloody Yanks, that's what it is. Two very good reasons for me to stay here.
- Det Supt Sandra Pullman: Fine. Then whilst we're gone you can plough through Derek Brooker's case files for us.
- Gerry Standing: X-files, more like.
- Brian Lane: The truth is out there, Gerry.