The Sweeney (TV Series)
Thin Ice (1975)
John Thaw: Regan
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Quotes
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Did anyone recall Thorpe?
DS Matt Mathews : From the dogs' home, you mean?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Yeah, you did put Thorpe onto the kennels, didn't you?
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Yeah, but you haven't told me to take him off.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Yeah I know I didn't tell you to, but I can't think of everything, can I?
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Sorry, Guv. I just got so carried away with this caper.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Well what were your last instructions to him?
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Wait there till he was relieved.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : How long ago was that?
Det. Sgt. George Carter : [sheepishly] Three days.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : There are some times, George, when I believe you're incapable of looking after a potted plant, let alone personnel.
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Tell me. I don't suppose you go out with married men.
Secretary : Only for money.
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[Regan finds out that Bishop's dog is gone]
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Are you telling me it clipped its way through a barbed-wire fence? It's a bleedin' dog, Thorpe! Next, you'll be saying it was all blacked up with a beret on its head.
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Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins : I had an electronic surveillance device on test. It's disappeared. Matthews said you took it.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Yeah, that's right, guv. I locked it on the bottom of Moose's Range Rover.
Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins : Oh, all right. Where's the Range Rover now?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Well that's the point. It's disappeared. Right here.
[Regan points at a spot on a map]
Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins : With my ESD?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : That's right, guv.
Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins : You lost my ESD? Have you any idea how much those things cost?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Wait a minute. I haven't lost it, guv'nor. It lost itself. After all, it's supposed to be unlosable. That's the whole point of the machine, isn't it? Gives off these little bleeps so you can tell where it's going.
Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins : It cost a fortune.
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Look, we were asked to evaluate it. Well, I just evaluated it. In fact, I can give you my considered verdict: it's useless. We've lost the Moose, and the dog, and the machine.
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Charlie Norton : It was the night I got out. I came home...
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Is that your opening part? "It was the night I got out"?
Charlie Norton : Isn't that what I said?
Det. Sgt. George Carter : Yeah, but come on, Charlie. You can do better than that.
DS Matt Mathews : Where were you the night you came out?
Charlie Norton : I was on the town, wasn't I? Celebrating. And I came home and there she was in bed, lying there with nothing on but a mink coat. "God," I said, "where did you get that?"
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : All right, Charlie, skip that bit. Tell us what happened on the night of the killing.
Charlie Norton : I'm leading up to it!
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Yeah, like a 19th-century novellist, three hundred boring pages.
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Det. Insp. Jack Regan : [Referring to Bishop] I want him back!
Det. Supt. Pringle : And how are you going to do that?
Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Any way I can!