Cracker (TV Series)
To Be a Somebody: Part 1 (1994)
Christopher Eccleston: Bilborough
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Quotes
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[His final words before dying]
DCI David Bilborough : This is evidence... this is a dying man's statement. I know what a defence lawyer will try to do. I'm of sound mind. I'm frightened, yeah, I don't want to die. I'm frightened, but I'm thinking straight. He had a photocopy of Nolan pinned to the wall. He fully intended to kill me. He stabbed me in cold blood. Are you listening, Jimmy? I want you to get this bastard, Jimmy, OK? For me and Catriona... get the bastard! Catriona... oh, God, Catriona... what will I tell her?
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Fitz : Someone goes into the store, buys a copy of the Guardian and a packet of teabags, and walks out without them. Why? A trauma. An argument.
DS Jimmy Beck : Bollocks.
DCI David Bilborough : We're looking for a skinhead.
Fitz : Whoever bought those items has not come forward.
DCI David Bilborough : That row was witnessed. He was an ordinary bloke, ordinary clothes, ordinary haircut. He's got nothing to do with the killing.
DS Jimmy Beck : Bollocks.
DCI David Bilborough : Jimmy, will you shut up?
DS Jimmy Beck : It's a load of bollocks!
Fitz : The shopkeeper didn't pick up the 4p. Why? Because he was dead.
DCI David Bilborough : He probably had a bad back! Fitz, we've got a description of the killer! He was a bloody skinhead, for God's sake, a bloody skinhead.
Fitz : There's a row. He goes home, broods a bit, shaves his head, comes back, throws the four pence at him, and stabs him, right?
DS Jimmy Beck : Bollocks!
Fitz : [to Beck] You need a Thesaurus.
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DCI David Bilborough : Is there anything you need, Fitz?
Fitz : Yes. A promise. We seek truth and justice, not a result. Good old-fashioned British justice where a man is innocent until proven Irish.
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DCI David Bilborough : Just answer the bloody question, Jimmy. Did you talk to that bloody woman or not?
DS Jimmy Beck : I will not answer that question!
DCI David Bilborough : Did you talk to that woman? Yes or No?
DS Jimmy Beck : For Christ's Sake, what do you think I am? I've been doing this job for the past 15 years, and you can ask me a question like that? What does that show, eh?
DCI David Bilborough : I haven't got time to argue with you, Jimmy! Did you talk to that bloody woman?
DS Jimmy Beck : That shows it! You've got no faith in me whatsoever! God's sake, FIFTEEN years!
DCI David Bilborough : Somebody did! Somebody talked to her, now was it you?
DS Jimmy Beck : No!
DCI David Bilborough : Thank you!
DS Jimmy Beck : But it crossed your mind! That's the point! It crossed your mind that I might have been the one!
DCI David Bilborough : A process of elimination, Jimmy! You're eliminated! Send Harriman in!
DS Jimmy Beck : How do you think that makes me feel?
DCI David Bilborough : I get the picture. You're feeling a bit angry, right? OK, fine, noted. Send Harriman in.
DS Jimmy Beck : You're treating me like some bloody prick fresh from training, just wet behind the bloody ears.
DCI David Bilborough : SEND HARRIMAN IN!
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[Examining Shahid Ali's body]
DCI David Bilborough : What do you think?
Pathologist : I think he's dead.
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[Clare Moody has just printed a half-fabricated article about Shahid Ali's murder]
DCI David Bilborough : A Pakistani's killed in a racially sensitive area and you print a story like this?
Clare Moody : It's the truth.
DCI David Bilborough : And that makes everything OK?
Clare Moody : Yes.
DCI David Bilborough : No! Who gave you this information.
Clare Moody : I can't tell you.
DCI David Bilborough : Don't hide behind journalistic integrity: you've got none. Who gave you this information?
Clare Moody : I can't tell you.
DCI David Bilborough : It wasn't the bloke who found the body: I've just been to see him.
Clare Moody : No.
DCI David Bilborough : Was it one of my officers?
[Moody doesn't answer]
DCI David Bilborough : If you don't tell me, I'll have you arrested. Was it one of my officers?
Clare Moody : Yes.
DCI David Bilborough : Which one?
Clare Moody : I'm not telling you.
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DCI David Bilborough : [Panhandle is refusing to contact Fitz after Nolan's murder] Are you embarrassed?
Penhaligon : Yes.
DCI David Bilborough : What's embarrassment compared to the grief that two families are suffering?
Penhaligon : That's not fair!
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[At the crime scene of Shahid Ali]
DCI David Bilborough : Did he say anything?
Gregson : He was dead.
DCI David Bilborough : No. The skinhead.
Gregson : No.
DCI David Bilborough : Would you recognize him if you saw him again?
Gregson : [Shrugging] He was a skinhead, you know what I mean? They all look alike.
DCI David Bilborough : Have you mentioned this to anyone else?
Gregson : Just the police.
DCI David Bilborough : I'd like to keep it that way, OK? Just between us.
Gregson : Sure.
DS Jimmy Beck : Keep it under your hat.
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DCI David Bilborough : [leans over corpse] What do you think?
Pathologist : I think he's dead.