- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: What are you saying, Max?
- Max Clement: This was going to be your last case.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: No, I didn't say that; you said that.
- Max Clement: Well, if you want to stay...
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: I've been at UCOS for ten years.
- Max Clement: It's a long time.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: It's valuable work.
- Max Clement: Yes, it is.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: With a *great* team.
- Max Clement: Absolutely, and you built it from the ground up. It was supposed to be a rubbish job. Shepherding a bunch of miscreant pensioners through some old case files, just so the Met could say they were doing *something* about cold cases, but you picked the right people. You gave them a good leadership. Which is why I think you should come and work on *my* team.
- Gerry Standing: Hold on, hold on; this isn't even our case anymore.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Shut up and get your coat!
- [last lines]
- Gerry Standing: Sandra, I hate to say this... but you're right to go.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Really?
- Gerry Standing: Yeah, yeah. God knows I'll miss you. No, we all will. But, uh, these past few years, well, I finally felt that I've achieved something. And it's all down to you.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Hardly.
- Gerry Standing: Oh, yes it is. When you've treated us better than any boss could... And quite often we didn't deserve it.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: That's certainly true.
- Gerry Standing: But you don't belong here any more. Naw, you belong out there where there's more exciting stuff to be done. And we're all big enough and ugly enough to cope.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: I should certainly hope so. I'll miss it. I'll miss you.
- Gerry Standing: Yeah, well, just one thing: when you walk out of here, just don't look back.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: I'll try not to.
- Gerry Standing: [brightly] Ready for the pub? I'll get 'em in. Your usual gallon of dry white?
- [he exits her office]
- Gerry Standing: Here, come, she's going to meet us there.
- Jack Halford: You going to sit there moping all day? Are you coming for a drink?
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: I'll be right there, Jack.
- Steve McAndrew: We're investigating the abduction and murder of several women between 1985 and 1996
- Donald Wheldon: Well, that's a while back. Slowly, slowly, catchee monkey, eh?
- Steve McAndrew: Well, some new has come to light, and we're...
- Danny Griffin: It's 'softly'.
- Donald Wheldon: Excuse me?
- Danny Griffin: Softly,, softly, catchee monkey. You're sneaking up on him. There's no advantage in being slow; monkeys are fast.
- [first lines]
- DAC Robert Strickland: Got a minute?
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Yes.
- DAC Robert Strickland: Something interesting.
- [hands her a file]
- DAC Robert Strickland: Leslie Hewitt, a nineteen year old student at the Royal Academy of Music; she played the violin. September the seventh 1996 Leslie left college at three o'clock in the afternoon to head back to the flat she shared in Camden. She was last seen walking into a park.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: No body?
- DAC Robert Strickland: No, no body, no witnesses. Vanished into thin air.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: And now?
- DAC Robert Strickland: And now... uh, this.
- [hands her a bagged photo]
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: This is her, is it?
- DAC Robert Strickland: Leslie Hewitt's sister, Emma, her only surviving family member, found the picture loose inside a book, in the charity shop where she works. We don't know who the photographer was. The photo's been scanned and cleaned up as much as possible. If we can identify any of the people in the picture, they could prove to be valuable witnesses.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: The jogger.
- DAC Robert Strickland: Yes, I saw him. It's a park; it could just be a man jog...
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: A nineteen year old music student - she fits the victim profile.
- DAC Robert Strickland: There is no victim profile.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: No, not officially, because I wasn't allowed to pursue it!
- DAC Robert Strickland: And this is not a green light to pursue it now! There's no way that figure's clear enough to identify, anyway.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: This guy could have seen him! Or he could just be a jogger. I'll put it on the board.
- Gerry Standing: Guv'nor, can I just point out something?
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: What?
- Gerry Standing: This isn't our case anymore. Strickland told us to clear the board.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: You never disobeyed an order?
- Danny Griffin: Is this the one that got away?
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Well, I don't lie awake at night thinking about it, if that's what you mean. I believed there was a correction, and I still do. But you have to remember that at the time no-one was listening to me because I was too junior.
- Steve McAndrew: Or maybe because you were a woman.
- DAC Robert Strickland: In fairness, Steve, she couldn't prove anything.
- [sees Sandra's look at him]
- DAC Robert Strickland: Although the other thing might be true too.
- Gerry Standing: You want us to spend all night trawling through London looking for a tramp with a camera!
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: I'd love to join you, but I'm a bit busy.
- Steve McAndrew: Busy doing what?
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Minding my own business.
- Max Clement: I need someone to run investigations.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Max, I can't just leave.
- Max Clement: I understand, I understand. You really want to though. Don't you? And I want the best person for the job.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Can I think about it?
- Max Clement: No. You can say yes.