Oh, reckless optimism
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
Home Office directive. Community-sensitive policy parameters. In real speak, they don't want a riot.
RERuth Evershed
Bugger the Home Office.
Mmm, if only...___________________________________________________________Vicki Westbrook: Tom Quinn.
That's my real name.
VWVicki Westbrook
Really? You use false name to doctors you dine and bed with, do you?
Sometimes.
[in stake-out/observation van]
Are we ready with the flat?
CColin
All concurrent surveillance systems are operational.
Colin, when the word “yes” will do, use it.
On the head of the King, let all the sorrows lie?
[to Oliver Mace] You've got some kind of hidden agenda here..
[arriving in doorway] If there is to be an agenda, it will be mine. Oliver, we speak now. Or must I embarrass you before junior personnel?
OMOliver Mace
There’s a serious threat to national security here, I can’t keep to the niceties.
I like the niceties, they protect us from tyranny.
OMOliver Mace
The moral high ground is a bit of a sand bank for you, Harry, the tide is coming in.
That is a totally illegal, madcap scheme. I like it.
[about a woman the team is trying to lift]
OMOliver Mace
The woman is to be returned to immigration, immediately.
Oh dear, we've lost her, whoops.
[team is in van on way to location]
What are you doing?
Texting Tom.
Don't send that, I don't want him here.
[van goes over speed bump in road, phone beeps 'message sent' tone]
Aww damn.
What?
It went... when we bumped.
Harry. Why are we investigating this? It’s . . . It’s a police job.
Do you understand atomic theory? Quantum mechanics? How there are six extra dimensions and infinite universes parallel to this one?
No.
Nor do I. I don’t understand politics either.
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