Sweeney! (1977)

John Thaw: D.I. Jack Regan

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Quotes 

• Det. Sgt. George Carter : Jack you're full of shit. Bollocks, you're pissed off because they didn't go down on their hands and knees to you at Fulham - "Ah it's Jack Regan, mastermind of the Sweeney police come to help us out" - and you've bored me all night tryin' to prove otherwise!

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Well you don't have to stay, you know!

  Det. Sgt. George Carter : Too bleedin' right I don't. See ya!

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Shut it!

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : You've slept with him too?

  Bianca Hamilton : Oh Christ! Don't start that again! Yes, often. Separately and together. Sometimes with an audience and sometimes...

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Shut it!

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Remember, no guns unless they use 'em.

• [arresting an armed robber at the end of a very violent punch-up] 

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : All right, Tinkerbell. You're nicked!

• [Carter pulls out a packet of cigarettes and puts one in his mouth] 

  Det. Sgt. George Carter : Sorry, Guv, I've only got one left.

  [Regan takes the cigarette out of Carter's mouth and puts it in his own] 

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : I only *want* one.

  [Regan fumbles for his lighter] 

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : You got a light?

  Det. Sgt. George Carter : Nope.

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Bastard.

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Leave it alone!

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Stan Morris? Leave it aht! He couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery.

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : ...now, sod off!

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Now listen, little lord spymaster: you may be Special Branch but that doesn't make you God almighty!

• Det. Sgt. George Carter : Do you know what, Jack? You're full of shit.

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : I thought it was about time you made an intellectual contribution to this debate.

  Det. Sgt. George Carter : Bollocks.

• [Carter walks out] 

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Sod it!

• [Regan hears a police siren] 

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Oh shit!

• [talking about McQueen] 

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : He should be locked up in the bloody Tower.

  PPS to Baker : That's exactly where MI5 have got him - the Tower Hotel.