New Tricks · Season 4
[Talking to Mary's Grave]
It was just as we'd imagined. What did you call them, God's Waiting Room? [laughs] It was that all right. A mausoleum to the living dead. People with all life crushed out of them. No... this is better. This is where I belong.
You know what's odd about this place?
No, but I'm sure you'll tell me.
There's no history of us. No photos. I've checked. I've been through every room, even your bedroom.
You went into my bedroom?
Not even one of your father. Now that did surprise me. I thought you'd have one of him, for sure. I've never understood that. That ability to be alone. That pride in your independence, that shuts everyone out. Even your own family. I had hoped when he died that we'd grow closer together but we've just moved further apart. Until, in the end, you were him. Another police officer rejecting me all over again.
I am trying, Mum.
I know. But we're too far apart to keep living this close. You can come and visit me when you want.
Yeah, yeah, I will. I promise.
You're not folding that right.
[Sandra confronting her mother about the truth behind her father's death]
My dad. Your husband. Gordon. How did he die?
You know how he died. It was a heart attack.
Not according to this. [she shows her a death certificate] I found it amongst your things. "Carbon Monoxide inhalation." Or suicide, to be precise. So I presume that's what he shouldn't have done in the car.
You didn't find that in my things. It was in a sealed envelope. You were prying!
[angry and upset] And you've been lying! You've lied to me since I was 14. All that time, all those years, all those people I've met who must have known the truth, it makes me look like a complete idiot!
Welcome to the club.
Why didn't you tell me? Why have you never told me the truth?
He was your father.
You've had 30 years!
You loved him. How could I tell you? What good would it have done? He was your father.
[Sandra confronting Jack about the investigation into her father that led him to suicide]
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.
Yes-
[angry] Bollocks!
Guv'nor, shall we just calm down?
All those years, you never said one word. You lied to me.
I never lied.
[shouting] You lied by omission! Just because you didn't speak his name doesn't mean you weren't lying!
Sandra!
No! You lied to me and then you drove-
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.
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?
[She storms off, Jack follows shortly]:
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