New Tricks (TV Series)

Blood Is Thicker Than Water (2009)

Dennis Waterman: Gerry Standing

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Jack Halford : How can Strickland afford to keep a boat in a place like this?

  Brian Lane : Yeah, I couldn't afford to fish in it.

  Gerry Standing : When I was a kid this whole place was a toilet. Literally. Few yards down the road, the biggest sewage plant in Bermondsey.

  Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman : Thanks for that precise mental image, Gerry.

  Jack Halford : Does he have to drag us all the way out here?

  Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman : I think it's very nice of him actually to take us for a bit of a sail. It's his way of saying thank you for all our hard work.

  Gerry Standing : I prefer 'ard cash.

  [they start down the ramp] 

  Gerry Standing : Ooh dear, be careful.

  Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman : Shut up.

  Jack Halford : Which one is Strickland's?

  Brian Lane : G7. It must be the mooring number.

  Jack Halford : Ah. G9. G8.

  [pointing to a large yacht] 

  Jack Halford : Ah, must be this one.

  Gerry Standing : Blimey!

  Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman : Wow!

  D.A.C. Robert Strickland : [from the next boat]  Ah! Welcome aboard the 'Last Minett'.

  Gerry Standing : He's having a laugh, isn't he?

  Jack Halford : I've seen bigger bathtubs.

• Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman : It turns out before Milburn and Carole got together, Carole and Patrick Nash were the school's Romeo and Juliet

  Gerry Standing : Ah, shagging.

  Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman : I think the preferred term is childhood sweethearts.

  Gerry Standing : Hmp. Shagging.

• Gerry Standing : Where've you been?

  Brian Lane : Down the library.

  Gerry Standing : Cor, you know how to live, don't you!

• Jack Halford : Grant Milburn. He is the man Leanne claims Fisher murdered. He made his millions in casinos.

  Gerry Standing : Alright. I remember him.

  Det.Supt.Sandra Pullman : Not surprised. It was propbably you who made him rich.