New Tricks (TV Series)

Home Truths (2004)

James Bolam: Jack Halford

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Jack Halford : I want what we've given that family: the truth.

• [first lines] 

  Brian Lane : Morning.

  Jack Halford : If Esther's chucked him out, it's your turn to put him up.

  Brian Lane : [to Officer carrying banker's box]  Yeah, put them there.

  [pointing to Gerry's desk] 

  Gerry Standing : Whoa, no you don't, no no no,

  [points toward Jack] 

  Gerry Standing : down there.

  Jack Halford : Uh, desk in the corner, please.

  Brian Lane : [as four boxes are piled on the desk]  What the! I only wanted the Adamsons.

  Police Officer : These are all the Adamsons.

  Brian Lane : From '71?

  Police Officer : Can't do that, sir. All are kept by surname. It's all the Adamsons or none of them.

  Brian Lane : Glad I didn't ask for Joneses.

• Brian Lane : After I'd made some enquiries and got nowhere, me superior told me to put it on the index and forget about it. Donna had probably walked out on her husband. Shacked up with another darkie.

  P C Clark : Darkie!

  Brian Lane : His words, not mine. It's just the way people spoke back then.

  Jack Halford : When I started, we were told never to use the word 'black'. The expression was 'coloured'; then race relations came in, and we were told never to use the word 'coloured'.

  Gerry Standing : Yeah, 'black' was the new 'black'.

  Jack Halford : [chuckling]  Yeah.