Wire in the Blood, Series 3

[Tony is being assessed for brain damage following an accident]

Neurologist:
Could you give me ten things that begin with a "p"?

Tony Hill:
Pie, paw, pot, poor, patients, patience, psychology, pneumonia, phantom, day.

Neurologist:
Day doesn't start with a "p."

Tony Hill:
Mine does.

Carol Jordan:
What did the hospital want?

Tony Hill:
They had something wrong with the X-ray machine.

Carol Jordan:
It's not what they said... Sorry, I'm nosy. Part of my job description.

Tony Hill:
They think it's a brain tumour. An intracranial meningioma. But if I can pronounce it, there can't be that much wrong with me.

Tony Hill:
It's the hand we don't see.

Carol Jordan:
What do you mean?

Tony Hill:
It's the times the cards told him not to shoot. Queen, Jack, Seven. Jung's theory of synchronicity says there are links between events beyond cause and effect. Patterns the conscious mind can't perceive.

[he pauses]

Tony Hill:
"There is no such thing as coincidence or accident."

Carol Jordan:
Did Jung say that as well?

Tony Hill:
No, that was Joe Stalin. And he was one of history's greatest murderers, second to cancer.

Carol Jordan:
So he really was just an innocent victim.

Bishop Fordham:
Of course.

Carol Jordan:
Then why was he shot?

Bishop Fordham:
God knows.

Carol Jordan:
So you'd be the right man to ask.

Bill Denton:
I don't like taking chances. I prefer certainties.

Tony Hill:
That's human nature. Finding patterns. Faces in clouds, gods in stars, the future in tea leaves. We're so desperate for meaning, we invent it. There is none.

Carol Jordan:
That's not true. Who we care about, what we care about, fighting for it, that's what gives our lives meaning. We have to go on. We don't have any choice.

Carol Jordan:
Looking for faces in the clouds?

Tony Hill:
No, I was just thinking about...

[he turns and their eyes meet]

Tony Hill:
...hang-gliding.

Carol Jordan:
Shouldn't you wait until you lose the staplework?

Tony Hill:
No. I'm tired of putting things off. Come with me.

Carol Jordan:
No, I've got work to do.

Tony Hill:
You're making excuses.

Carol Jordan:
Yeah.

Tony Hill:
Life's dangerous. Come with me.