New Tricks (TV Series)

The Gentleman Vanishes (2011)

Alun Armstrong: Brian Lane

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : Nine-o-two p.m. seventh of February 2004. This is the seven p.m. train from Charing Cross to Dover and it's two hours into its journey.

  Brian Lane : Two hours? Shouldn't they be in Dover by now?

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : Yeah, it should be, but a couple of miles out of the station someone pulled the emergency handle. Now watch this.

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : [showing train security video]  Four seconds. It takes four seconds to go through that first door, along the short connecting corridor and then into the buffet-car. Four seconds. This guy here is Doctor Philip Mackenna; he's a physics professor at University College London. He was due to catch the ferry from Dover to Calais and then another train to Paris, where he was going to speak at a conference on theoretical physics the following evening. Now keep watching. He talks to the blind man; then he gets up, and he heads to the buffet-car. Four seconds.

  [long pause] 

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : Doesn't matter how long you wait. Philip Mackenna never comes through that door and he hasn't been seen since.

• [last lines] 

  Brian Lane : Well, as Gerry says, good luck tracking down Alice Fox.

  Gerry Standing : On the other hand, she might be hiding in the pub!

  D.A.C. Strickland : Oh. I'll get the first round in.

  Brian Lane : Bloody hell!

  D.A.C. Strickland : Yeah, well, don't get used to it.

  Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman : Don't think there's any danger of that, sir.