Gerry Standing quotes from New Tricks

Gerry Standing

Whenever you're ready... Guv'nor.

Jack Halford

Ex-DI Brian Lane, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman.

Brian Lane

Pullman? Sussex University. Accelerated entry, 1987. Bramshill, '92. DI, Murder Squad, '92 - '95. DCI, Armed Robbery Squad, '95 - '98.

Jack Halford

So how's it been going Brian - retirement?

Brian Lane

Oh, fantastic. Love it. Best thing I ever did. Get do what I want, when I want. Grandchildren, gardening, football, swimming, day trips... gardening, car, pets, dogs, the wife. Did I mention gardening?

Sandra Pullman

Your days sound pretty full. I wouldn't have thought you'd want to come back.

Brian Lane

I don't. Not as a cop. But as an investigative officer, technically a civilian, full access to files... when do we start?

Gerry Standing

Ah! An ahstray!

Jack Halford

Uh, we'd rather you didn't.

Gerry Standing

But there's–

Sandra Pullman

The squad will initially be quite small. Concentrating on murder cases, and then, depending on the success of the operation, expanding to encompass other–

Gerry Standing

It's her innit? Woof, woof, bang, bang.

Am I the only one here who knows how a police officer is meant to behave? Good God, this is not the 1970s - it's not even the 1980s! You can't verbal a suspect like you used to and expect to get away with it!

Jack Halford

With all due respect, Don, it was working.

With no due respect, it wasn't. After you went round to his house the first time, Lombard was on high alert. He knew you were as much in the dark as the original team and moments before opening the door to you this evening, he phoned his solicitor on his mobile. He left the line open for the next hour and a half. His solicitor recorded the whole thing and he's itching to use it in an action against you for unlawful arrest, harassment, you name it!

[screaming] LET ME OUT!

They can't hear you, Mr Lombard, you could scream your head off in here for, oh, 42 days...

You thought the evaluation was a way of closing down the unit, but it wasn't. The evaluation was a routing assessment of your current status and you passed! Just! Now, if someone's looking for a reason to close down UCOS, you've handed them one on a plate! [to Sandra Pullman] And as for SO10, I think we can safely kiss that one goodbye.

Sandra Pullman

Sir?!

Brian Lane

SO10?

I expressly told you to drop this case.

Sandra Pullman

It went against all my instincts as a police officer.

Yeah, well, once again your instincts have made you look very foolish, Sandra, and what's worse is that it made me look like a complete idiot for backing you as far as I have.

Gerry Standing

[to Sandra] You were getting promoted to SO10?

Now I'm going to have to spend the rest of tonight working out a way to persuade Lombard's solicitor to forget this and I'm going to spend all day tomorrow deciding what to do with you lot. Now, get out!

Sandra Pullman

So, Jack... you knew my dad? You investigated him and then he killed himself. So, all those years ago when you have me my break in the Murder Squad that's because you believed in equal opportunities was it? Cos you really rated me as a detective regardless of what everyone else thought.

Jack Halford

Yes-

Sandra Pullman

[angry] Bollocks!

Gerry Standing

Guv'nor, shall we just calm down?

Sandra Pullman

All those years, you never said one word. You lied to me.

Jack Halford

I never lied.

Sandra Pullman

[shouting] You lied by omission! Just because you didn't speak his name doesn't mean you weren't lying!

Gerry Standing

Sandra!

Sandra Pullman

No! You lied to me and then you drove-

Jack Halford

Your father killed a man. He killed a small-time pimp called Ian Randle in Canning Town. And he covered it up. I never told you and I never told your mother. There you are. Now you know. Your father was a good detective, very good. But he made a mistake, it might even have been accidental. But the cover-up wasn't. Anyhow, shortly before I was due to arrest him, I let him know that I knew. Because I thought he deserved that much. That was my mistake. And I'm sorry.

Sandra Pullman

I don't believe you. I don't believe he was capable of that, because I knew him and I knew what he was like. He didn't do that?

Gerry Standing

To think I welcomed you to the team. I thought you'd be an asset to the investigation.

It was an accident.

Sandra Pullman

An accident that had seen an innocent man serve 16 years for a crime he didn't commit.