[Interviewing the candidates, first on-screen appearance of Brian Lane and Gerry Standing]
Ex-DI Brian Lane, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman.
Brian LanePullman? Sussex University. Accelerated entry, 1987. Bramshill, '92. DI, Murder Squad, '92 - '95. DCI, Armed Robbery Squad, '95 - '98.
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?
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?
[next candidate sits down - Gerry Standing]
Uh, we'd rather you didn't.
The squad will initially be quite small. Concentrating on murder cases, and then, depending on the success of the operation, expanding to encompass other–
It's her innit? Woof, woof, bang, bang.
DBDonald Bevan
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!
With all due respect, Don, it was working.
DBDonald Bevan
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!
[Bevan plays tape]
LOLombard [on tape]
[screaming] LET ME OUT!
JHJack Halford [on tape]
They can't hear you, Mr Lombard, you could scream your head off in here for, oh, 42 days...
[Bevan stops tape]
DBDonald Bevan
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.
Brian Lane
SO10?
DBDonald Bevan
I expressly told you to drop this case.
It went against all my instincts as a police officer.
DBDonald Bevan
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.
[to Sandra] You were getting promoted to SO10?
DBDonald Bevan
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!
[Jack Halford's final appearance]
Brian Lane
When did you find out?
A few weeks ago. It [the cancer] is in the liver. Nothing they can do.
Brian Lane
But we're your friends!
Brian Lane
BUT WE'RE YOUR FRIENDS!
Yes, you are. And I want you to remember me as I am. I want to go away to a place that's special to Mary [his wife] and me. Just me there, with her, and our memories.
Brian Lane
When are you going?
ASAP. Will you do something for me, Brian? Don't tell anyone, not until after. And I don't want anyone to try and stop me or anyone coming after me or anyone trying to get in touch with me - it's just me and Mary, understand?
Brian Lane
[he nods] Yeah.
Now get into that pub and put on a brave face.
Brian Lane
I'm so sorry, Jack.
[Brian makes his way to the pub]
Brave face, Brian! And, mine's a large scotch!
[Jack stands in the rain knowing that his days are numbered, he then walks towards the pub for one last drink with the team he helped build]
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