The Sweeney (TV Series)
Abduction (1975)
John Thaw: Regan
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Quotes
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : I sometimes hate this bastard place! It's a bloody holiday camp for thieves and weirdos - all the rubbish. You age prematurely trying to sort some of them out. Try and protect the public, and all they do is call you fascist. You nail a villain and some ponced-up pinstripe Hampstead barrister screws it up like an old fag-packet on a point of procedure, then pops off for a game of squash and a glass of madeira. He's taking home thirty grand a year, and we can just about afford ten days in Eastbourne and a second-hand car. It's all bloody wrong, my son.
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : The hairs on my wooden leg tell me that something is up.
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : SHUT IT!
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[Regan and Carter find Stanley Proctor's body lying on the floor of his ransacked shop]
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : They really laid into him.
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Poor little bastard.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : [bitterly and sarcastically] He was sixty-three, five foot four and asthmatic - he must have *really* given them a bad time.
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Kate Regan : I still love you, Jack. And I still hate you. Well, not you, maybe - the job.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : You can't separate a man from his work, Kate.
Kate Regan : That's the trouble.
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[Regan has arrested Brenda for kidnapping his daughter]
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Have you any idea what you've done to her mother? She could end up in a psychiatric ward because of you.
Brenda : [lamely] Sorry.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : [angrily] Sorry? Too bloody late for that! If you were Alan Foss, I'd take you somewhere quiet and I'd make sure you never walked straight again!
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : People like you and Foss make me laugh. I find you both about as funny as a broken leg.
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : I'm gonna nail these pigs, and God help them when I do.
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Det. Sgt. George Carter : [Looking at a wilted plant of Regan's] Hey, you haven't been waterin' this, have yah?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : [Dryly] They don't like scotch.
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : [to Knowles] You couldn't find an Irishman in a Harp factory.
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Det. Sgt. George Carter : Look, how do you want to play this?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : The way it comes.
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Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins : Jack, I didn't understand.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : At least you listened.
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Det. Sgt. George Carter : It's dated today... coincidence?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : I don't believe in coincidence when a man's been murdered.