Taggart, Livingstone and others in “Unfinished Business”

80,000 nicker... Works out to be... [DC Sinclair gets out his calculator.]

Works out at nearly £9,500 a year.

[Reading the calculator's display] Er, £9,411.76.

Can't folk work things out in their heads nowadays?

[Entering, carrying some files] Jim? Have you started on the Highlands Electrical enquiry yet?

[Not lifting his eyes from the paper] Yeah, we've got 230 customers' returns.

Try and be enthusiastic about it. I'm just off to a conference in London.

What conference is that?

"Policing in the 90s."

Well, you'd better hurry(!)

Is David Balfour still in your conscience?

[Holding up the paper] He'll be all right for the rest of his life.

£80,000 doesn't carry you far these days.

Is he still at Jo Peebles'?

As far as I know.

Forget about him, Jim. He's been compensated. You can't give him back eight and a half years of his life! [He hands the files to Taggart and heads for his office]

[Calling after Murray] I can found out the truth about Margaret Balfour's murder! [He starts going through the files...]

You really think Jo Peebles knows more?

Yes, I do. Why did O'Donnell try to conceal Margaret Balfour's identity?

Well, maybe he panicked after David Balfour was arrested.

[Briefly shakes his head] He'd a dismembered body under the floorboards, what difference did it make? Anyway, he'd left before the arrest.

Murderers don't always behave logically.

You wade through that lot. [Hands Livingstone a large pile of files and papers] I'm going out.