Desk Sgt quotes from A Touch of Frost

What you make of that phone call?

Frost

What phone call?

There's a note on your desk here somewhere.

Frost

Well what did it say this note?

Here we go. Caller wanted to talk to you about the missing girl, wouldn't leave his name. Just said, tell him her mother withdrew a large sum. Then he rang off.

Frost

Why didn't you tell me this before?

It's been sitting around here for god knows how long. If you cleaned up that desk once in a while you might be able to find something. It's a bit of paper it's not the Queen.

Frost

He's quite right of course?

You see Jack, a lot of people whinge about positive discrimination. But if you don't have positive discrimination you're left with negative discrimination and that leads to inertia, perpetuating the status quo.

Frost

I used to quite like them.

You've got to get proportional representation.

Frost

What are you talking about now, politics?

In all ranks. When you got a black superintendent that's when you don't need to push the Tanners of this world through the system anymore cause it will happen naturally.

Frost

How did Mullett get there then? He's not black, and he's certainly not natural.

Well why can't you do it down wind in the car park?

Frost

Because I'm tired and he's tired and he's been putting a lot away and I'm not getting any sense out of him. So I want him banged up nice and tight so I can speak to him first thing in the morning.

You do know the last time we had him in a cell we had to hose it down afterwards.

Frost

Yes I know William, but what you've got to remember that he's just a human being like you are.

Bullocks.

Frost

I knew you'd understand.