New Tricks (TV Series)

Communal Living (2008)

James Bolam: Jack Halford

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• [first lines] 

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : [on her mobile]  I just don't see why it's suddenly landed in my lap.

  Jack Halford : Good morning.

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : I'm on my way now, sir. Move, Gerry!

  Jack Halford : Good morning.

  Gerry Standing : Is it?

  Jack Halford : Third time lucky. Good morning, Brian.

  [Brian ignores him] 

  Jack Halford : Ah, sod the lot of you!

• Gerry Standing : Question: what was he doing on a hippie commune in the first place?

  Brian Lane : How about 'Sex, Drugs and Naked Yoga'? Silly season story from the Daily Star in 2005. Couple of hacks went in undercover to expose free love and psychedelia in Waltham Forest.

  Gerry Standing : That explains it, doesn't it? If I'd seen that story when I was eighteen...

  Det Supt Sandra Pullman : You'd have been digging out your bell-bottoms and love bead thingies.

  Jack Halford : And you wouldn't have told your mother where you were going.

• Steve Pearson : Just the way he was going. Not when we first moved in together; he was pretty normal then.

  Carl : Depends your idea of normal. He never missed a lecture, handed all his essays in on time...

  Steve Pearson : He was just a nice lad, though, right? It didn't last though. by the end of term he was involved in things at the union. The societies.

  Jack Halford : What societies?

  Carl : Oh, ban the whale, save the bomb, trees are people too - all that kind of thing.