- DI Frost: [Introducing Tanner to his office] Let's have a quick rundown on the filing system, shall we?
- [Pointing out three piles of papers]
- DI Frost: In... out... LBW
- DC Carl Tanner: LBW?
- DI Frost: Let the buggers wait!
- DI Frost: [Self-reproaching] All I did was use that poor little girl like I use everyone... for the sake of the job. This poxy job is all I got.
- D.C.I. Allen: All you got is the uncorroburated word of a three year old.
- DI Frost: Then I'll corroborate it.
- DI Frost: Sandy, you're in the finest traditions of journalism. You know, I've always saidthis about you... you never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
- Supt. Mullett: I think I might call a press conference to take the heat out of the situation.
- D.C.I. Allen: I think the fire department's already done that, sir.
- DI Frost: [pulling up outside a nice house believed to belong to a petty thug] Hardly scumbag country, is it?