Episode Summary
An old girlfriend of Bodie's unwittingly involves him in an assassination and he finds himself on the run from CI5.
Episode Details
- Writer: Ranald Graham
- Director: William Brayne
- Original Broadcast: UK: 09.12.1978
Cast
- Bodie Lewis Collins
- Cowley Gordon Jackson
- Doyle Martin Shaw
Guest Cast
- Old Woman Myrtle Devenish
- Kreiber Sandor Elès
- Technician Gregory Floy
- Anna Astrid Frank
- Third Security Man George Irving
- Schumann Frederick Jäger
- Barman Eamonn Jones
- Second Security Man Phillip Joseph
- Fourth Security Man John Larsen
- Willis Michael Latimer
- Julia Lydia Lisle
- First Security Man Patrick Malahide
- Knowles Frederick Marks
- Vic Michael Redfern
- Marikka Schumann Pamela Salem
- Barmaid Christine Shaw
- WPC Vivien Stokes
- Old PC Lewis Wilson
Quotes
Doyle: Can't believe it. That guy's still on the phone. We're going to miss them.
[Bodie, engrossed in the newspaper, doesn't respond. Doyle sits down and pull out his radio]
Doyle: Give me some cover.
[Bodie holds up the newspaper to shield Doyle from the rest of the garden patrons]
Doyle: [into radio] 4.5.
Julia: Receiving you, 4.5.
Doyle: Hello, Julia, sweetheart. Listen, will you call this number for me? 903 8676.
Julia: 903 8676.
Doyle: That's right. Tell Christine to phone her friend and tell her that we'll meet them at Dino's Wine Bar, 7.30.
Julia: This is strictly against regulations.
Doyle: I'll make it up to you.
Julia: You're all mouth and trousers, 4.5.
Doyle: Careful, I'm licensed to thrill.
Julia: Ha ha. I'll call you back.
Doyle: Oh, hey, wait a minute. Listen, this message is for Christine. So, uh, if a fella answers the phone, you're a friend, okay?
Julia: I don't think I'd like her.
Doyle: You're right, you wouldn't like her at all. Bye bye.
[Doyle puts away the radio and looks at Bodie who is still staring at the open newspaper]
Doyle: Julia. Nice, eh?
[Bodie doesn't even glance his way. Doyle pulls down a corner of the paper to see what Bodie is reading]
Doyle: Hey, what is this? An up-market Page Three?
[The page has a large picture of Marikka in a t-shirt under the headline East
German Star Visits London
]
Doyle: All the nudes that's fit to print? All the nudes that's —
Bodie: [finally responding] Page Three?
Doyle: Forget it.
Cowley: Have you been seeing much of Bodie socially these days?
Doyle: Not my idea of a date.
Cowley: No. Is he still seeing that Welsh schoolteacher?
Doyle: What Welsh schoolteacher? Another half?
Cowley: I will. Bodie had a secret meeting with a suspected East German agent. Willis' man had the suspect under observation, that's how we know. I've seen the photographs.
Doyle: When was this meeting?
Cowley: Last night. Why?
[Doyle shrugs] I want you to keep an eye on him.
Doyle: It'll be hard.
Cowley: It'll be harder. Willis has got him under total surveillance as well.
Doyle: Yeah, well, they're going to be watching him, aren't they, not me.
Cowley: Check in as from now on Alpha Charlie frequency. All communication from you will be recorded whether I'm speaking with you or not.
Doyle: When do I start?
Cowley: Immediately.
Doyle: Yeah, I'm going to need a photograph of this agent in case Bodie wants to contact him again.
Cowley: It's not a him. It's a her.
[Cowley hands Doyle a surveillance photo]
Doyle: Well, you've got to hand it to the lad. If he was going to the electric chair, he'd have Miss Universe pulling the switch.