Lucas quotes from Spooks

Harry

[after getting agent Lucas North back from Russia after 8 years] How did they treat you?

Lucas

Sometimes well. Sometimes not. [pause] They told me I could come home if I spied for them.

Harry

What did you say?

Lucas

I said yes. [smiles] Do you think we can stop for some fish and chips? I've got a craving.

Lucas

Malcolm! [they hug] Good to see you. How's your mum?

Oh, she's very well, very well. You look, uh, you look, uh... Is there anything I can get for you? Hot soup?

Lucas

No, Malcolm, I had chips. Thanks. But I tell you what, though. I haven't had a decent sup of tea in eight years. [Malcolm has a look] What?

Is it really eight years?

Lucas

[everyone looks sad] Oh, it flew by! These Russian prisons, they're like holiday camps, they've got mattresses and everything.

Harry

[reading one of Lucas' tattoos] Dum Spiro Spero.

Lucas

While I live, I hope. Tattooing's part of the culture in there. You don't do it, you don't belong, you don't belong, you're dead. [turns to reveal more tattoos] They all mean something. There's a specific iconography. Fascinating, really. So, how did Tom Quinn work out?

Harry

He took early retirement.

Lucas

How'd you get me back, Harry?

Ros

How's the nervous system?

Lucas

Twitchy. This is a mistake.

Harry

[Ros and Harry thinking Lucas is a Russian spy] I'm glad you didn't waste those years trying to memorize convincing excuses.

Ros

Maybe Kachimov should add that to his curriculum.

Lucas

We should be following Elizabeta.

Ros

We are following Elizabeta.

Harry

Come on, Lucas. Impress me with your ability to talk your way out of this.

Lucas

I agreed to be Kachimov's agent in London. Of course I did. But just to get back. To come home. God knows I couldn't rely on you to do it for me.

Ros

And you failed to mention this earlier. Why?

Lucas

[to Harry] I told you in the car.

Harry

You joked about it in the car.

Lucas

You suspected it. You as good as told me. If I admitted it officially, you'd lock me in a call and debrief me for months. I've seen enough cells.