MI-5 (TV Series)

Smoke and Mirrors (2003)

Matthew Macfadyen: Tom Quinn

Quotes 

• Zoe Reynolds : You're a liar. That wasn't Joyce.

  Tom Quinn : Who the hell do you think it was?

• Herb Ziegler : If you don't let this go, I'm telling you, Christine Dale will be jailed for leaking a top-secret communication.

  Tom Quinn : You would crucify one of your best officers to stop British Security? Why?

  Herb Ziegler : Let the big boys do what what they've gotta do, Tom, and Christine won't get hurt.

• Tom Quinn : [quoting telex]  Translation reads: First voice, Shark arriving London Heathrow, what news of money?

  Christine Dale : Kaharias is Greek for shark.

  Tom Quinn : Second voice, The four million is on the mountains.

  Christine Dale : Switzerland.

  Tom Quinn : First voice, Please advise the movement of the British Eminence next 48 hours. Greetings from Algallah. Second voice, God is great. Record of satellite reception ends.

  Christine Dale : Algallah's a small village on the outskirts of Baghdad.

  Tom Quinn : Location of first caller, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Location of second caller, Wimbledon, London, UK. Action decided, extreme weather. Do not advise mice. Message ends. So, someone with Iraqi connection is hiring American hit man to come to London to kill an eminent man. We haven't had a sniff of this, Christine.

  Christine Dale : Of course not.

  Tom Quinn : What does extreme weather mean?

  Christine Dale : It's code for a CIA clandestine operation to desensitise an individual on foreign soil.

  Tom Quinn : Meaning kill.

  Christine Dale : Yeah.

  Tom Quinn : Okay, and who are the mice who are not to be told about this?

  Christine Dale : MI-5. It... Company joke, sorry.

  Tom Quinn : No, feel free.

• Tom Quinn : What the CIA is doing is espionage as rape. They are trying to destroy my personal life with Christine. Why should I trust them with my country?

• Tom Quinn : This is smoke and mirrors, Danny. Someone is spinning an illusion.

  Danny Hunter : Yeah. You.