[First words on series - Murder Squad burst into room]:
POLICE! Stay where you are!
MSMurder Squad Officer
Hands in the air! Now!
[Chinese man translates to everyone]
MSMurder Squad Officer
Drop everything on the floor! Now! Do it!
[Chinese man translates, forcing a man to release a vicious dog]
[Sandra pulls out her gun and shoots the dog]
CMChinese Man
You shot my dog... You shot my dog!
[Whilst this is going on, a person tied up in the bedroom escapes through the window and lands on a car - the murder squad investigate]
[rolls eyes] Ah. [she takes her helmet and mask off] Terrific!
[Sandra getting transferred to form a new team – UCOS]
DBDonald Bevan
Anna Dubrovski's murder is to be reinvestigated. Reconfirming that the case against Wringer still stands will ease the pressure the Met, publicly and politically.
And he intends to sue, is that right?
DBDonald Bevon
Not when you're finished with him he won't.
DBDonald Bevan
Everyone is aware what a distinctive and enviable career oath you've carved out for yourself. But you screwed up. The idea is that we use your investigation as the basis for a new initiative. A team of dedicated personnel, re-examining other open cases. Hmm? That's your brief.
DBDonald Bevon
We may not have the manpower in terms of serving officers. We can still call upon a large number of retired detectives experience in serious crime.
DBDonald Bevan
Fully cognisant with practice and procedure at the time the offences were committed.
[desperate] Don, please don't do this to me.
DBDonald Bevan
Think of the advanced in forensics, offender profiling... We really have a wonderful opportunity to put a lot of these cases to bed.
Retired detectives. Do they have to have their own teeth?
[First on-screen appearance of Jack Halford]
UCOS. Unsolved Crime and Open Case Initiative.
[looking through the files] What did somebody call it? Don Bevan's love child. The Unsolved Crime and Waste of Time Initiative?
No, that would be UCAWOT. I know it's tricky the thought of working for someone you used to boss but if there's one thing I learned from you it was to respect people's abilities, not their rank. Plus they're all retired detectives and I don't know any of these people.
Er... DI John Farrelly. Oh, I know John. He works-
But he only left last December.
Heart attack in the sea off Malaga. Serves him right. The place is full of villians. 65% of CID officers are dead within five years of leaving the job. [continues to rummage through the profiles] Dead. Dead. Good as. Alive but he bores for England. Retired but currently under investigation by the CPS. Ditto, the DTI. Dead. Alive but don't leave him alone with your kids. Retired sick. Well, insane, really. Dead, dead... Would be if I got hold of him. Nope. I think you'd better advertise.
[Interviewing the candidates, first on-screen appearance of Brian Lane and Gerry Standing]
Ex-DI Brian Lane, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman.
Pullman? 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?
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.
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.
[Sandra discussing candidates with Jack]
No, you may have worked with him [Brian Lane] but it's out of the question.
He's a first-class detective.
It's not possible, I know what happened to him.
No, no, you don't, trust me.
[looking at the other file] "Gerry Standing"?!
No! I only met him because I'd heard so much about him. I didn't think you were serious.
Do you want to do the job properly or do you just want to look nice?
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.
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!
