The Bill (TV Series)

The Drugs Raid (1984)

Eric Richard: Sgt. Cryer

Quotes 

• Sgt. Cryer : [to Maggie]  You must have more tins of salmon at home than John West!

• [Litten, Cryer and Martella are in the floor of the foyer in Decker's Club, frisking suspects for drugs] 

  P.C. Litten : 'Ere, you don't want to swap places with this one, do ya, Viv?

  W.P.C. Martella : Not if it's a rubber glove job, I don't.

  Sgt. Cryer : Now, cut out the romance, you two.

• [Sgt. Cryer enters the charge room to find it jam-packed with the suspects from the drugs raid, along with a stressed Sgt. Penny, who is taking their names down] 

  Sgt. Penny : [raises his voice to all the suspects in the charge room]  One at a time, what do think I am, a bloody robot? LET'S HAVE SOME QUIET, PLEASE!

  Sgt. Cryer : [to Penny]  'Ere, is that perspiration on your forehead?

  Sgt. Penny : How would you know?

  Sgt. Cryer : Listen, I've got someone to make an old man very happy.

  [Sure enough, Maggie, along with Miss Newnham, enters the charge room] 

  Sgt. Penny : Oh, no!

  Maggie : [to Penny]  Well, if you're gonna be like that, I'll come back later. I don't mind.

  Sgt. Penny : [to Miss Newnham]  Salmon?

  Miss Newnham : Yes, 3 tins.

  Sgt. Penny : All a mistake, I suppose.

  Maggie : [to Penny]  Well, I wouldn't do it on purpose, would I?

  Sgt. Penny : [sighs]  What on earth are we going to do with you, Maggie?

  Maggie : Well, you can start off, by making me a nice cup of tea.

• Maggie : I could do with a cup of rose 'ere, love. I'm spittin' feathers.

  Sgt. Cryer : Me too, Maggie. Me too.

• Maggie : [drinking her tea from a paper cup]  Why can't I have a cup and saucer, like everybody else? I remember the time when you could get a decent cup of tea in this nick.

  Sgt. Cryer : Safety regulations, Maggie.