New Tricks

New Tricks

New Tricks is a British television procedural crime drama, first broadcast in 2003. In February 2015, BBC One announced the show would end after series 12. The show's title is taken from the proverb "You can't teach an old dog new tricks". The series follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) of London's Metropolitan Police Service, a squad of retired police officers recruited to re-investigate unsolved crimes. There were cast changes, but the squad always consisted of three men with a woman boss.

Year:
2003
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Stephen Fisher:
I need Renfield's original report, all the documents you've used, every note you've made, the physical samples of Gleick's handwriting...

Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman:
We have evidence here...

Stephen Fisher:
Of a crime that was committed a century and a half ago, and as you've all taken great pains to point out, that's hardly relevant today.

Brian Lane:
Yes it *is* relevant. That information could stop this Ellis-Finch deal with the Chinese.

D.A.C. Robert Strickland:
He doesn't want it stopped. He wants to make sure it *can't* be stopped.

Brian Lane:
And like Jack said, this is a pension fund they're interfering with. It's people's lives.

Jack Halford:
He doesn't care about that, Brian.

Stephen Fisher:
I serve the national interest.

D.A.C. Robert Strickland:
I think it's time you left, Stephen. [hsnds him his coat]

Stephen Fisher:
By all means.

D.A.C. Robert Strickland:
Empty-handed, I'm afraid.

Stephen Fisher:
Ah.

D.A.C. Robert Strickland:
It's one thing to come in here and requisition this team for your own private investigation. It's quite another to make us all complicit in the destruction of evidence in a murder investigation. Especially one which may have implications in the present day on the international stage.

Stephen Fisher:
You've been rehearsing that speech.

D.A.C. Robert Strickland:
The evidence will stay here, pending a conversation I'm going to have with the Commissioner.

Stephen Fisher:
How do you envisage that conversation playing out?

D.A.C. Robert Strickland:
Well, we'll have to see, won't we?

Stephen Fisher:
I can tell you, if you're interested. The conversation ends with you handing over to me everything I've asked for, just prior to writing your letter of resignation.

D.A.C. Robert Strickland:
I won't be threatened by you, Stephen. I know you'd like us all to think that your power extends that far.

Stephen Fisher:
[angrily] Not *my* power, Robert. The power of the British Government, brandishing the Official Secrets Act - to which you are all subject. and the contravention of which brings with it consequences far graver than you seem to be considering. Those of you who still *have* careers, consider what you will do without them. Those of you who don't, consider how your loved ones will cope while you live out the twilight of your lives at Her Majesty's pleasure. Now, I suggest you put the documents in the bag, and put today's events very firmly out of your minds.

[first lines]

DAC Robert Strickland:
Got a minute?

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
Yes.

DAC Robert Strickland:
Something interesting. [hands her a file] Leslie Hewitt, a nineteen year old student at the Royal Academy of Music; she played the violin. September the seventh 1996 Leslie left college at three o'clock in the afternoon to head back to the flat she shared in Camden. She was last seen walking into a park.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
No body?

DAC Robert Strickland:
No, no body, no witnesses. Vanished into thin air.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
And now?

DAC Robert Strickland:
And now... uh, this. [hands her a bagged photo]

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
This is her, is it?

DAC Robert Strickland:
Leslie Hewitt's sister, Emma, her only surviving family member, found the picture loose inside a book, in the charity shop where she works. We don't know who the photographer was. The photo's been scanned and cleaned up as much as possible. If we can identify any of the people in the picture, they could prove to be valuable witnesses.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
The jogger.

DAC Robert Strickland:
Yes, I saw him. It's a park; it could just be a man jog...

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
A nineteen year old music student - she fits the victim profile.

DAC Robert Strickland:
There is no victim profile.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
No, not officially, because I wasn't allowed to pursue it!

DAC Robert Strickland:
And this is not a green light to pursue it now! There's no way that figure's clear enough to identify, anyway.

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman:
This guy could have seen him! Or he could just be a jogger. I'll put it on the board.

[last lines]

DCI Sasha Miller:
[Sasha has accidentally shattered Ted's statuette] That was, um, a complete accident.

Ted Case:
My dad's spirit.

Steve McAndrew:
Anything we can do, Ted?

Ted Case:
Well, I suppose we could ask his pardon. We, uh, say, can pass on. You know, we don't want his restless soul haunting us, do we? Um, look, um, let's just link hands.and form a circle, eh.

Steve McAndrew:
You got to be kidding.

DCI Sasha Miller:
Uh, if this is what Ted needs, this is what we do.

Ted Case:
Now, repeat after me: Perd?neme, pap?.

Danny Griffin:
You're father was Spanish?

Ted Case:
N-no, the figure is Mexican, Spanish speaking.

DCI Sasha Miller:
Let's just get it over with. What was it?

DCI Sasha Miller, Ted Case:
Perd?neme, pap?...

DCI Sasha Miller, Ted Case, Steve McAndrew:
Perd?neme, pap?.

Ted Case:
Keep looking at the figure.

DCI Sasha Miller, Ted Case, Steve McAndrew, Danny Griffin:
Perd?neme, pap?. Perd?neme, pap?

Ted Case:
Yes. [as the others keep chanting] Feeling his love. Feeling his love. Yes! Yes! He's forgiven us.

Danny Griffin:
Oh, good.

Ted Case:
Yeah. And, uh, well, while you're all here, um, I'd just like to say I've persuaded Pat to hold off on the camper van trip, so if the job's still open I'd like to say yes.

DCI Sasha Miller:
That's fantastic news. Ted, Congratulations, welcome to the team.

Danny Griffin:
Welcome.

Ted Case:
Thank you.

Steve McAndrew:
That's terrific, Ted. Great, that's great. Yeah.

Ted Case:
So, um, well, a little celebration, I suppose. [Ted pulls another statuette from his desk]

Danny Griffin:
What's that?

Ted Case:
My dad's spirit. Tequila. Sixty percent proof. [chuckling] Fancy a shot? [He starts laughing and the others join in after a minute]

DAC Robert Strickland:
[on phone] No, I know it's not the outcome that you wanted, sir, but the important thing is that we got to the truth.

DAC Robert Strickland:
No, I've no idea how the press got wind of the arrests, but the genie's out of the bottle *now*, sir.

DAC Robert Strickland:
Yes, well, leave it with me; I'll see what can be done. Yes, g...

[as he hangs up]

DAC Robert Strickland:
Good-bye, sir.

[there is a knock on his door]

DAC Robert Strickland:
Yeah, come in.

DCI Sasha Miller:
You wanted to see me, sir?

DAC Robert Strickland:
Oh, yes, I'm glad you're here, Sasha. I've just been speaking to the Deputy Commissioner on the phone. This mornings arrests were a major PR embarrassment for the yard.

DCI Sasha Miller:
Sir...

DAC Robert Strickland:
Close the door on your way out.

[he smiles]

DCI Sasha Miller:
Um, sir? Uh, can I ask you a question? I spoke to a contact at the DPS. They've known about Hennessy for six months.

DAC Robert Strickland:
Yes.

DCI Sasha Miller:
So, why did the Yard wait so long to order the re-investigation into the Monroe case?

DAC Robert Strickland:
What, you think they were waiting until they knew that you'd be leading the investigation? You've been reading too many conspiracy novels, Sasha.

DCI Sasha Miller:
[sees Strickland's open datebook] She's a good reporter, isn't she?

DAC Robert Strickland:
Who?

DCI Sasha Miller:
Emily Ward. The journalist who wrote the news of the arrests.

DAC Robert Strickland:
[closes the datebook] I think you and I are going to get along very well.


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