Rock & Chips (TV Series)

Five Gold Rings (2010)

Nicholas Lyndhurst: Freddie Robdal

Quotes 

• DI Thomas : Last night, I had this strange dream.

  Freddie Robdal : You've been a widower for eighteen months, so don't feel bad about it.

• Freddie Robdal : I don't know what it is about prisons. Always seems to attract the worst kind... and criminals.

• Freddie Robdal : Is Reg working?

  [Joan giggles disdainfully] 

  Joan Trotter : He had a job but it only lasted a week. They caught him asleep on duty.

  Freddie Robdal : What was he doing?

  Joan Trotter : He was trolley-bus driver.

• DI Thomas : You know, I was hoping that after all this time, your subconscious would let go of its little sea of memories. So let's give it another try, shall we?

  Gerald 'Jelly' Kelly : Shouldn't our lawyer be present?

  DI Thomas : Only if you're frightened of something.

  Freddie Robdal : We used to blow up German battleships, so you two dribblers couldn't make us jump in a haunted house.

• Freddie Robdal : Our lawyer was applying for bail first thing this morning.

  DI Thomas : I know. First thing this morning I called the magistrate, Mr Colinwood, and opposed your bail. I can't release two old sea dogs like you. First smell of the sea and you'll be sailing off to God-Knows-Where. So I'm sorry, boys, but it's jail, not bail.

  Gerald 'Jelly' Kelly : Oh, would that be ex-Commodore Colinwood? Late of the Royal Navy?

  Freddie Robdal : Commodore Colinwood who presented us with our Commendations for Bravery?

  [Long pause] 

  DI Thomas : [Irate]  Bollocks!

• DI Thomas : I'm looking forward to a nice, comfy Christmas at home, me.

  Freddie Robdal : Bet your wife ain't.

  DC Stanton : DI Thomas's wife died eighteen months ago.

  Freddie Robdal : Sorry to hear that.

  DI Thomas : Thanks, Fred. Not to worry. I didn't really like her.