Mike quotes from Sea Patrol

Mike

We’ll need to record the container’s serial number before we decide what to do with it. Who’s up for a recce? It’ll mean one of you in the drink.

Mike

Suit up, RO. [Ro brushes past him.] He always goes paper.

Mike

There is nothing I value more than honesty, courage and a good throat ripping debate

Mike

Here’s Plan A, and there is no Plan B so this better work.

Mike

Alright, but if we all get blown up, you two are on bilge scrubbing duties for a month.

Mike

Brief me while I get dressed.

Mike

Uh, look, Kate. I haven’t had a chance to talk with you privately since you joined us.

Kate

No.

Mike

When we last met, on the course, I never expected we’d end up on the same ship, you being a big ship sort of person and me being wedded to patrol boats.

Kate

Yes, you’re right. I am a big ship sort of person.

Mike

Well, Hammersley has only got six months left in her, so...

Kate

As for anything else that may have happened between us, I’m sure two professionals can work together. Sir?

Mike

Yes. I’m sure.

Mike

Seaman Webb?

Mike

Stay where you are. How are you feeling?

Spider

Um, fine, sir.

Mike

That’s interesting. You look like death warmed up.

Spider

That’s actually how I feel, sir.

Mike

First time away from home?

Spider

Yeah.

Mike

I know how it feels. Lying in this same rack, thinking about Mum’s roast dinners.

Spider

This was once your rack, was it, sir?

Mike

Carved my initials in there somewhere. I understand you did very well today on your first boarding party.

Spider

Yeah.

Mike

Keep it up.

Spider

Thank you, sir.

Mike

What’s happening, Buffer?

Buffer

They’re still looking for a tube, sir.

Mike

[Looks thoughtful.] Tell X she’s got a pistol. Use it.

Buffer

You want him to shoot her?

Mike

Tell X to break down her Browning, remove the 9-millimetre barrel, use it as a tube. Over.

Buffer

Got it.

Mike

[Chuckles.] Shoot her.

Nav

Well, that’s one way of ending a crisis.

Mike

[Yelling down the stairwell.] RO!

RO

[Appearing around the corner.] There’s such a thing as a pipe sir.

Mike

Keep trying to raise ET and Jaffah.

RO

As I was doing when you shouted, sir.

Mike

But I think we can put that other thing behind us.

Kate

Other thing? Yeah, that’s what I’d call it. “Other thing.”

Mike

You’ve been on Hammersley now...?

Kate

48 hours, sir.

Mike

Welcome aboard.

Mike

Enjoying yourself, X?

Kate

Driving a patrol boat is very different to a frigate.

Nav

Ha! Yeah, different as! Like a V8 and a schoolbus.

Mike

You’re a westie petrolhead, Nav.

Mike

Nav, mark the buoy’s position on radar.

Nav

It’s already marked, sir.

Mike

Just once I’d like to get in ahead of you,

Nav

[Laughs.] In your dreams, sir.

Kate

She strikes me as the sort of woman who relates better to men then to other women.

Mike

That’s a crime now?

Kate

She looks for the alpha male and she concentrates on him and everyone else is invisible.

Mike

I’m the alpha male?

Kate

[Chuckles.] Oh, and don’t you know it.

Mike

[About Kate.] Good officer. She’ll make a good CO one day. Still has some things to learn, of course.

Well, that’s why the brass in Canberra posted her to you.

Mike

I thought it might be to teach me a few things.

Well, maybe somebody thought you could use a bit of system management and Lieutenant McGregor could use a bit of pirate.

Mike

I see.

Look, nothing personal, Mike, but if you want to dabble in these grey areas, don’t be surprised if Canberra sends a bit of black and white

Mike

And he’s under the impression that you’re Wonder Woman.

Kate

Oh, you didn’t already know that?