New Tricks2003

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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.