New Tricks (TV Series)

The Truth Is Out There (2009)

James Bolam: Jack Halford

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : I'm sorry, Jack, this case is neither unsolved nor open. Peter Edelmann committed suicide.

  Jack Halford : Derek always thought there was more to it than that.

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : Yes, a lot more according to his files and none of it remotely plausible.

  Jack Halford : Look, I'd be the first to admit some of Derek's theories were a bit...

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : I know he was a friend, Jack.

  Jack Halford : This is not about friendship, Sandra; it's about loyalty. A fellow police officer whose name's about to be dragged through the mud...

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : Jack, if we take this case on, all that happens is that we end up looking every bit as crazy as Derek.

  Jack Halford : Well, where's the harm in looking through the files unofficially? He may have missed something.

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : Be honest, Jack. If this file landed on your desk and you'd never even heard the name Derek Brook...

  Jack Halford : I know, I know, I'd think he was several sandwiches short of a picnic. But I knew Derek, and he was a good detective, and if he thought that Edelmann's death was suspicious he must have had grounds for it!

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : [pause]  OK then. Put it on the board.

  Jack Halford : Thank you.

• [Gerry had a date with Melissa the night before] 

  Jack Halford : This poor woman actually agreed to go and have a drink with you?

  Gerry Standing : Agreed? *She* asked *me*.

  Brian Lane : Isn't it a bit dangerous for someone with a severe visual impairment to be riding a bike in London?

  Jack Halford : She could get her white stick caught in the spokes.

  [Jack and Brian laugh. Sandra walks into the room] 

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : What's so funny?

  Gerry Standing : Nothing.

  Brian Lane : Gerry's been asked out on a date by a forty-five-year-old.

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : Woman?

  Gerry Standing : Very funny. She happens to be gorgeous.

  Brian Lane : With a thing for older men.

  Jack Halford : *Much* older.

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : Maybe she's just looking for a man with wisdom and experience.

  Gerry Standing : Thank you, Sandra.

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : ...And she thinks Gerry might know one.

  [Sandra, Jack and Brian laugh uproariously. Gerry walks off in a huff] 

• Jack Halford : Look at all this! Flying saucers and aliens! Proof doesn't come into it.

  David Beaumont : Mr Halford, he doesn't believe in the possibility of intelligent life on other planets.

  Jack Halford : Mr Halford is beginning to doubt the possibility of intelligent life on this one!

• [last lines] 

  Gerry Standing : [pointing at Brian]  He thinks it was aliens

  Brian Lane : I'm just saying we've no proof to support one version of events over another. Maybe there are more things in heaven and whatnot...

  Jack Halford : His mechanism's gone.

  Gerry Standing : He should phone home.

  Brian Lane : Yeah, well, you believe what you like. But when whatever it is comes crawling out of them woods bent on world domination, then you'll all be sorry.