- DS Murray Boulting: I've got 31 blokes here who chose to get a Millwall tattoo. 31. I will never cease to be amazed by the vagaries of human nature.
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: Fiver if you know when Marathons changed to Snickers.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: 2000.
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: Way out. 1990.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Oh, wow. Where did my life go?
- [last lines]
- Alan Hamilton: Well, weirdly, I actually remember this incident remarkably well.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Oh, okay. Good. Why?
- Alan Hamilton: 'Cause it was so strange. Nothing like this had ever happened to me before or, indeed, ever happened again.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Wow. Go on.
- Alan Hamilton: So, as it says here, the car was speeding. That's why we pulled it over. And when the driver got out, Fogerty, I could smell alcohol on his breath. He didn't seem drunk, but we did a test and he failed it, so, obviously, I had to nick him, which is when he started to cry. And he was a big lad, tall. But he was crying like a child, like he was utterly broken-hearted. It was upsetting, you know? Because, well, he seemed like a nice enough kid. I mean, he'd been silly, but as I said to him, he'd get a couple of points on his license and a year ban, but it wasn't the end of the world.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Hm.
- Alan Hamilton: Which is when he told me. He was driving back from a party in Hendon. A celebration party.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: A celebration party for what?
- Alan Hamilton: Passing out.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: No...
- Alan Hamilton: He was a probationer who'd just qualified, and he was crying because he knew... Well, he knew he'd just fucked his entire career.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: And the others, in the car. Had they been at the same party?
- Alan Hamilton: Yeah. That's why it's stayed in my head all these years. Because all five of them were newly-qualified coppers.
- DS Fran Lingley: So, why the hell would you screw a freezer door shut?
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: [opens the freezer Fran is looking at] Right. Well, that looks very much like blood to me. And if it's his, we might just have a shout in finding out who he is and maybe where he comes from.
- DSI Clive Andrews: They just won't budge. I'm so sorry.
- [Cassie nods]
- DSI Clive Andrews: As I say, they're very happy with the first six months as sick leave, and they're happy to go half pay for another six, but, uh... they just won't allow a medical retirement. Which obviously still leaves you three months shy of your full 30 years. And I'm as angry as you are. Because I know five years ago, they just would have waved this through without a second thought. Maybe, in five years, they will. But... now? You know what it's like, Cass. They're still counting every single penny.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: And what was that figure again? What does it equate to, exactly?
- DSI Clive Andrews: Erm... It's, uh... 124,467 pounds.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: That I'd lose. Despite me not being able to come back three months ago.
- DSI Clive Andrews: Which they say -- they, not me -- is not the case.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: And what the fuck do they know? Sir. They're bean counters. Never done a single day on the job in their lives. Meaning they have not one single scintilla of an idea what 30 years of -- sorry, 29 years and nine months - of doing this job does to a person. 29 years and nine months of having to mop up the... blood and the tears and the... rage and the despair, on a daily basis. This judgment does not recognize, that, Sir. This judgment does not cut me any slack.
- DSI Clive Andrews: And, again, I'm, uh... I'm so sorry, Cass.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Yeah, well. Me, me too.
- [stands to leave]
- DSI Clive Andrews: We'll need to go back to them. What do you want me to say?
- DCI Cassie Stuart: I dunno, I need to think.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: So, what did you say to them?
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: What you told me to. That you didn't want a fuss.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Yeah, more of a fuss than that. That was like I went out to get a cup of bleedin' tea.
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: [laughs] You okay?
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Yeah. Just gonna keep my head down, Sunny. Do the job, not get too involved. Be fine.
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: It will.
- Liz Baildon: So, what have you planned today, then?
- Eileen Baildon: Oh, today, I'm going roller skating, and tonight I thought I might head into town and try a club!
- Liz Baildon: Oh, we're in that sort of mood, are we?
- Eileen Baildon: Today, I will be mainly lying in bed, Elizabeth, wishing I was dead, because everyone I ever loved, liked, or enjoyed spending time with, already is.
- Liz Baildon: Right. Well, thanks for that.
- Eileen Baildon: Well, if you will ask such asinine questions.
- Liz Baildon: Okay, er, enjoy your lunch. I'll see you tomorrow.
- Martin Hughes: Well, I think they're perfectly within their rights.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Really?
- Martin Hughes: Listen, they want and need people to stay for 30 years, so if they start making exceptions for someone who's just had enough...
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Just had enough?
- Martin Hughes: ...tomorrow, some bloke comes along and says, Oh, well, in that case, can I finish six months earlier?
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Alright, I think you're slightly missing the point, Dad. I haven't just had enough. I've been off sick.
- Martin Hughes: Yeah, well, that's another bloody con.
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: I'm so sorry.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Yeah.
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: What are you gonna do?
- DCI Cassie Stuart: What can I do?
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: There's always projects, Cass, jump on one of those. Or take a job in admin, or...
- DCI Cassie Stuart: I'm not taking a job in fucking admin.
- [first lines]
- Ray Melling: [directing a crane operator] Yeah, put 'em on top of the other one. Easy! That's it. Just there, mate.
- Terry Melling: Oi! Three nil, mate! Oh, my days!
- Ray Melling: FA Cup, mate, who gives a toss?
- Terry Melling: You do, mate!
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: Okay. Well, come back in with us, then.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: And lose it again?
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: It was one man.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: You think? It was everything, Sunny. It was Finch, it was 30 years of doing this shit, it was the Walker case, what I did...
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: What we did.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Everything. And being away from it, the questions fade. Well, they don't go away, but they fade.
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: I... I don't know what to say, Cass.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Nope. Me neither.