Murray, Taggart and others in “Unfinished Business”

[Leaving his office followed by Taggart, referring to Taggart's previous "neighbour"] Mackie was a good man, the best. You were a good team. But he's gone now. There's a new breed of men, Jim, you know that.

[Pushing a button on the hot drinks machine] It's his attitude, sir.

Oh, come on. You're too good a man yourself to let personality come into it.

[Handing the drink to Murray] I have to work with him.

He has a good record.

[Pushing the button again] I don't care about his record.

Is it his background?

There is that.

You and I came up the same way, Jim. A long, slow climb. [Taggart gets his drink] I know how you feel, I felt that way too. Graduates jumping in where we spent years slogging. That's the new way, live with it. [They go into Taggart's office] Al Mackie won't come back.

I'll never know why he did it. [Left the police to become a Buddhist monk.]

He was your friend.

Not his confidante, it seems.

It was a personal decision.

He was a good copper.

A deeply unhappy one, Jim. At least he's found his purpose.

Livingstone's found his - to annoy me!

Nobody's asking you to marry him, Jim! Work with him on this one case, what, forty-eight hours?

Come in. [DC Grant does so.]

Excuse me, sir. It's a message from Detective Sergeant Livingstone. They found a purse five hundred yards down the river, and they've identified the body.