New Tricks2003

[first lines]

Police Officer:
[to Brian, who is breathing heavily at the foot of a ladder] Go on. You can do it. Sir.

Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman:
When the builders found this, they called the local police who threw it up to us when they realized it was relevant to an old murder case.

Jack Halford:
How long was the trap door secured?

Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman:
Ah, the builders reckon the false ceiling was put in sometime in the fifties.

Gerry Standing:
And any time after that it would have been Artexed over.

Brian Lane:
[half-way into the attic] Oh, bloody hell, I can't do this. Confined space. Doctor's orders.

Det. Supt. Sandra Pullman:
It's all right, Brian, you don't have to come all the way up; you can watch from there.