- Liz Baildon: I think it's fair to say that when I told my parents I wanted to be a police officer, they could not have been less pleased. I'd just completed a classics degree at Balliol, so it wasn't quite what they were expecting me to do next.
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- Alan Hamilton: So, this guy knew his career was over before it had even started.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: So, he was obviously very upset, but the others, have you got any recollection what they were like?
- Alan Hamilton: Is there something I should know?
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Probably be better just to answer it as you remember it.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: I'm too bloody old. You're too bloody old.
- Adam Stuart: It's 7:14.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: I've been getting up at 6:15 for 30 years, so do me a favour, will you? Get up and go find a job, because we are selling this house and, in a few months, you will be homeless. Have a nice day.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: So, we do this by the book, Sunny. Whatever they are now, any of them, they all get treated the same.
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: Wouldn't have dreamt of doing it any other way, boss.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: What?
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: Just... as long as we're not trying to settle scores here.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: What, you think this is about my pension?
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: I just know that the case for murder involving any of these four is paper-thin.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Yeah, right now, maybe, but it won't be, trust me.
- DI Sunil 'Sunny' Khan: My least favourite expression.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: Okay, fine. There is... a small bit of me wants to punish someone. Andrews. The Met. Fuck it, the world sometimes, but it really is a tiny bit, Sunny, and if you see it getting in the way at any point, you call me out on it.
- DC Jake Collier: You know what we need, don't ya, us detectives? What we actually need is a magnifying glass.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: John? Do I seem angry all the time?
- John Bentley: Not all the time, no.
- DCI Cassie Stuart: I'm sorry.
- John Bentley: It's all good. See you later. Love you.