MI-5 (TV Series)

Seventh Division (2003)

Matthew Macfadyen: Tom Quinn

Quotes 

• Harry Pearce : Now, you're all aware of the situation with Sam. I've decided to give her a second chance, but I want to make one thing clear now. The next person who breaks the rules, the next person who messes up, the next paperclip that goes astray from this office and you are out! Is that clear?

  Tom Quinn : Oh, physician, heal thyself.

• Tom Quinn : I'm in the middle of an operation right now, and uh, maybe afterwards, you know, we can take stock.

  Christine Dale : Take stock? God, you are a nation of shopkeepers after all.

  Tom Quinn : Something happened that shouldn't have.

• Ruth Evershed : The Chala Cartel are going to swap a shipment of drugs for surface-to-air missiles.

  Danny Hunter : That's crazy, why do drug traffickers...

  Ruth Evershed : There is a precedent. When the Colombians cracked down on the drug cartels in the 1990s, it really wasn't advisable to take an internal flight.

  Danny Hunter : They'd do that here?

  Zoe Reynolds : Well, they incinerated 30 teenagers in Madrid because of two deportations, remember.

  Tom Quinn : That's how they operate. Leave us alone or we'll really hurt you.

  Ruth Evershed : So why don't we leave them alone, why prod the snake?

  Tom Quinn : That's a good idea, Ruth. Yeah, that's great, let's leave everyone alone, give every snake what it wants, then the world can be one big happy nest of vipers and you can go back to GCHQ.

• [first lines] 

  Customs agent : [voice-over]  ETA Dover in half an hour. All units continue to stand by. Status report please, whisky seven, over.

  Female customs officer : In position, Alpha One.

  [hangs up] 

  Female customs officer : It's the final at my son's football tournament tonight.

  Tom Quinn : Is he any good?

  Female customs officer : Joe?

  [laughing] 

  Female customs officer : He's absolute crap! But he loves it, so I tell him he's the next Thierry Henry. You've got kids, haven't you?

  Tom Quinn : Yeah, I've got two. Zoe and Danny. Um, Zoe's great. She's great. She's too clever for her own good sometimes. Danny's at a... difficult age. He's always getting into trouble.

• Tom Quinn : So, Katy.

  Zoe Reynolds : Jack.

  Tom Quinn : You work in publishing. Impulsive, generous spirited, a little over-the-top sometimes. I have to rein you in.

  Zoe Reynolds : You're a risk analyst. Withdrawn, slightly aloof, cold even. People never know what you're thinking. I thought we were supposed to be assuming new personalities here.