New Tricks (TV Series)

The English Defence (2014)

Dennis Waterman: Gerry Standing

Quotes 

• Gerry Standing : [about Steve's moodiness]  I'll find out what's wrong with him.

  DCI Sasha Miller : No, no, no. You're nobody's idea of the Peace Corps; let him sort it out himself.

• Gerry Standing : Chess is all about an inner eye for geometric relationships. Plus, of course, a capacity for deductive logic.

  Steve McAndrew : Why are we wasting our time on this again?

  Gerry Standing : Look. If A implies B and B implies C, then A implies C. D'you understand?

  Steve McAndrew : I do. If you keep talking bollocks and I keep listening to your bollocks, then you'll keep talking bollocks.

• [Gerry is getting obsessed with chess, after investigating a murder victim who was a keen chess-player] 

  Gerry Standing : It gets under your skin. When I finally *did* close my eyes last night, all I could see were bishops and rooks.

  Steve McAndrew : Makes a change from tarts and vicars, eh?

• Gerry Standing : [about Steve]  He's been like this for days. Doesn't bring anything to the party, and then pisses on everybody's chips.

• [last lines] 

  Danny Griffin : [about chess]  Did you know there are three hundred and eighteen *billion* possible positions after our first four moves each?

  Gerry Standing : Don't try and blind me with science. It's a simple game.

  Danny Griffin : And that the number of distinct forty-move games is greater than the number of electrons in the observable universe.

  Gerry Standing : Just make *one* move, will you!

  Danny Griffin : Yes, of course, right.

  [moves his queen] 

  Danny Griffin : Checkmate.

• Steve McAndrew : Think of us as a new pair of eyes.

  Viktor Proust : If facts are same, only people analysing are different. You are better than first police?

  Gerry Standing : Spot on. We are the super-sleuths of Scotland Yard.

  Viktor Proust : I don't think so.