The Sweeney (TV Series)
Taste of Fear (1976)
John Thaw: Regan
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Quotes
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[Regan and Carter have just found DS Hargreaves sobbing in a phone box after he panicked and deserted his colleagues during a shoot-out with Cook and Ames]
Det. Sgt. George Carter : What happens to him now?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Chief Medical Officer. If he's lucky, he'll end up helping old ladies across the street.
Det. Sgt. George Carter : It's a hard world, Guv.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Yeah, but keep it to yourself, George. No-one else wants to know.
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : 'Ere, George. This jacket. Does it fit?
Det. Sgt. George Carter : You got a new bird or something?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Is it all right?
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Here and there, yeah. How much did you pay for that whistle?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Forty quid.
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Forty quid? You know you could have got a new one for that, don't you? No seriously, guv. If you ever want to get rid of it, I'll buy it off you.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Really?
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Yeah, really.
[pause]
Det. Sgt. George Carter : My mum's dog needs something to sleep on, you see!
[Jack throws his sandwiches at George]
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : You git!
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : The first hairy one I was on - you know, shooters etc - there was a real old sweat. "Weren't you nervous?" somebody asked him afterwards. "Nah!" he says. "Not even a little bit?" "Nah! Funny thing is, though, some bugger peed my pants."
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[Jack is telling Haskins that he failed to capture Tim Cook]
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : George Carter got stabbed.
Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins : Stabbed?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : With a fork...
Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins : Anyone eating with it at the time ?
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[Regan has just heard that Hargreaves has beaten up Tug Wilson, and is giving him a bollocking for it]
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : There's a routine. There's a reason. You *talk* - you don't kick their tripes in!
Det. Sgt. Robert Hargreaves : They'll laugh at you. It's the toecap they understand.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Oh, you're a right one, you are. You kick the daylights out of some cheapskate petty crook who wouldn't say "boo" to a goose. But when you're on a *real* job - when we *need* you to come out fighting - you lose your bottle!
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[after being reprimanded by Haskins for failing to catch Cook and Ames at the caravan site]
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Do I write my statement, then get drunk? Or get drunk and then write it?
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Why not just get drunk.
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[talking about Hargreaves]
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : The man doesn't swear, he doesn't drink - or when he does drink, it's cider... in halves.
Det. Sgt. George Carter : He's a cricketer.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Yeah, I was coming to that. And a pound to a penny, he's a God-botherer.
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Well with his size, you see, his prayers don't have to go far!
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Benny : Have you ever seen a pocket that deep?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Only on a Scotsman!