I became a 'tec for the glamour. What happens? Spend most of my nights trolling through paperwork with you.
Yeah? Well, you can bet your life Frank McCallum did exactly the same when he was on the job. Just remember why you're doing this, Matt.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
Kids and paint. My idea of hell.
You know me, Mattie. I believe everything everyone tells me, and I'm disappointed on a daily basis.
Maybe if we get it forensicated?
DMDS Matt Devlin & DI Natalie Chandler
[As Ronnie grins] Forensicated isn’t a word!!
FMForensic Medical Examiner Teddy
...traces of assorted human detritus - mostly exfoliated skin and the parasites that feed on it. Stuff you'd fine in your mattress
Not in my mattress [Alesha laughs, Ronnie recoils]
LSLuke Slade
This city was built on corpses. Why does this one matter so much?
They ALL matter!
Dad was born 1939, Upton Park, East 50
Ah, so his dad got him into the Hammers
Sorry?
West Ham. Commonly known as the Hammers 'cos they keep getting hammered...
Watch it, Sunshine!
WWaiter
I'm sorry Sir, the club room is only open to members.
I am a member, James Steel.
WWaiter
I do apologise sir, but you'll be aware of our rules governing...
Blacks?
WWaiter
Girls.
I think you mean women.
[about a gynecologist who sexually abuses and rapes his patients] He'll do it again. He won't stop and what if he goes further next time?
Alesha...
What if he already has?
If no one speaks out...
James, I spoke out!
I thought... I thought you'd understand as a woman. I thought...
As a woman, I'd like to cut off his dick with a rusty hacksaw and ram it down his throat!
What church do you attend?
PRPC Ray Griffin
I've never found one that worked for me, but my faith is very important.
You're not really a religious man at all, are you? You don't belong to a church, you lift phrases from the Bible out of context, devoid of comprehension to justify your own prejudices. This is bigotry masquerading as faith, isn't it? You're an insult to all those people who actually have genuine faith.
BMBea McArdle
You know, I've always found your inflexibility truly irritating, James.
Then please don't let me keep you.
BMBea McArdle
Manslaughter - provocation, have we got ourselves a deal?
[scoffs] This was a straight-up revenge killing, Bea, you know it.
We're all liberals until the front garden is invaded, James.
[his closing argument] Whose freedom has priority here? You might think that Roland Kirk is your worst nightmare. You might understand Harry Morgan's frustration, but he broke the law. He beat Roland Kirk in the most brutal way, then he walked away, leaving Roland Kirk for dead. That wasn't self-defence. That was vigilantism. In viciously attacking a sleeping man, Harry Morgan became a bigger menace to society than Roland Kirk could ever be.
If it's not that crew, who else would want to remove a man's kidney?
Religious cult?
Nah, they're normally after the heart. That or they rip the eyes out.
[Ronnie stops in his tracks and stares at Matt.]
What? I've read about them. Doesn't mean I'm in one, all right?
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