New Tricks (TV Series)

Creative Problem Solving (2005)

Alun Armstrong: Brian Lane

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Trainer : So, to sum up: Creative Problem Solving. Techniques that allow us to move forward as individuals, as teams, as an organization.

  Gerry Standing : [standing]  Right.

  Trainer : One last thing before we finish.

  [Gerry sighs and sits down] 

  Trainer : Could you stand up, please. Right.

  [holding a large soda bottle] 

  Trainer : You catch it; you come up with a new use for it. If you get stuck, use the check-list. Don't censor.

  Supt. Sandra Pullman : [catches the bottle]  Um, cut the bottom off, attach four strings, tie them to a silk canopy: hot air balloon.

  Trainer : Great.

  [Amanda tosses the bottle to Brian] 

  Brian Lane : Sterilize, crush, melt and mince a hundred bottles providing fibrous polyester strands which we weave into a fleece.

  [tosses the bottle to Gerry] 

  Gerry Standing : Um... Nah, I'm sorry, me brains gone blank.

  Trainer : Relax; use the check-list. You have an idea, Gerry.

  Gerry Standing : Huh. No, I haven't.

  Trainer : If it's sexual, perfectly normal.

  Gerry Standing : No, I'm sorry, sweetheart; nothing.

  Trainer : Don't block, Gerry.

  Gerry Standing : I'm not.

  Trainer : You have the answer.

  Gerry Standing : I haven't!

  Trainer : What are you holding?

  Gerry Standing : Eh?

  Trainer : Say it, Gerry!

  Gerry Standing : What?

  Trainer : What's in your hand?

  Gerry Standing : It's a bottle, for Christ's sake!

• [last lines] 

  Supt. Sandra Pullman : [Brian is trying to open the office safe]  What's the problem?

  Brian Lane : I can't remember the number.