Killer (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.1 (1983)

Alastair Duncan: Det. Sergeant Livingstone

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• Det. Sergeant Livingstone : Strangulation. With a ligature.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : We don't have ligatures in Maryhill.

• Det. Sergeant Livingstone : I made a few notes of my own before you got here.

  [hands a notebook to Taggart who opens and it and starts reading] 

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : In situ?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : A reference to her undergarments.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Aren't knickers good enough for you?

• Det. Sergeant Livingstone : I grew up with a notion that Glasgow was a depressed area.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Don't you insult my green city.

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : I wasn't trying to insult it.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Tenements, alcohol, and punch-ups. That's what you grew up with. The image everybody carries. Look around you. Do you see any bloody noses?

• Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : What's your drink?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : Lager and blackcurrant.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : You can buy that yourself.

• Det. Sergeant Livingstone : I still think that you're wrong. Sorry.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Why?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : Because it's so circumstantial.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : There was a detective chief inspector Wallace, bastard man! I worked with him on a dozen inquiries. He used to say that a nose for the truth was a talent. You either had it, or you hadn't. The bastard never made a wrong jump.

• Superintendent Murray : You play golf?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : Tennis, sir.

  Superintendent Murray : There's some good golf clubs in Glasgow.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Some good tennis clubs, as well, sir.

• Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : [walking to the car]  Where's your place?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : I've rented a flat in Hillhead. Hey, you could drop me off.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : You want to get to know Glasgow? My green city? Walk.

  [Taggart drives off] 

• Det. Sergeant Livingstone : I think you're unfair, sir.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : If you and me are gonna work together there are a couple things we better get straight.

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : Such as?

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Number one. You've got five minutes to eat that. Number two. Rank.

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : I just think you're unnecessarily bigoted.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : A bigot? Me? Listen, I've turned blind eyes. But when somebody wastes my time to protect a wee bit of illicit nooky.

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : I still think you're unfair.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Ay? You do, do you?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : I had gay friends at university.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : You're not a Mary Poppins yourself?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : No!

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : O-ho! Now we're touchy aren't we?

• Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : My dad wanted me to be a tram driver.

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : Why?

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : He was one. 'Till his eyesight failed. Used to come here with my mother. Sat over there. Two wee people. Not a lot to live for.

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : You were born here then?

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : A mile that way.

• Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : You live alone?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : Yes, sir.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Will you stop calling me that... I thought you'd be fixed up.

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : There was someone in Edinburgh.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Young and pretty, was she?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : I nearly married her.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Why didn't you?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : She didn't want to be married to a policeman.

  Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : She had brains!

• Det. Chief Inspector Taggart : Whatever happened to the penny dainty?

  Det. Sergeant Livingstone : Costs two now.