Episode Summary
Bodie and Doyle infiltrate an organisation that hires killers to assassinate prima facie nobodies.
Episode Details
- Writer: Tony Barwick
- Director: Dennis Abey
- Original Broadcast: UK: 12.12.1982
Cast
- Bodie Lewis Collins
- Cowley Gordon Jackson
- Doyle Martin Shaw
Guest Cast
- CI5 Man John Ashbury
- Mitchell Christopher Banks
- Lewis Patrick Brock
- Kovac [Voice] Raymond Brody
- Minister Graham Crowden
- Dawson Paul Daneman
- Man Jim Dowdall
- Flynn John Hart Dyke
- Miss Walsh Joyce Grant
- Williams Patrick Ryecart
- Ferris Barry Stanton
- Twig Nick Stringer
- CI5 Girl Susan Worth
Quotes
Minister: These cuts are mandatory.
Cowley: I thought you said
proposed
?
Minister: You must try to master Whitehall jargon. I expect your reports on how you plan to implement them within a week.
Dawson: Yes, Sir.
Minister: Cowley?
Cowley: I'll do my best.
Minister: Now, item two: security. After recent unfortunate events, I think the overall picture is satisfactory.
Cowley: I'm afraid I don't.
Minister: Really?
Cowley: We never seem to learn. Every few months, some new mole, some double agent, some new scandal is uncovered. The papers are full of it. And then the dust settles.
Minister: Go on.
Cowley: Then we go back to the same smug, complacent attitude I'm hearing here today. I'm sorry, Minister, I consider the security situation as far from satisfactory.
Dawson: And what do you propose we do about it?
Cowley: Why don't we purge our intelligence services clean once and for all?
Dawson: You're recommending a strong purgative for all of us, George, eh?
Cowley: Don't get clever with me, Dawson. I'm serious.
Dawson: Then I must take you seriously.
Minister: Extraordinary. Didn't even want a drink.
Dawson: Obviously a busy man.
Minister: So are we all. Frank opinion, Nigel. Off the record.
Dawson: Of what, Sir?
Minister: George Cowley.
Dawson: Well, he's impetuous, headstrong. He's a bit too independent. Too powerful. Not accountable enough to the right people.
Minister: Of course, he's highly thought of.
Dawson: Yes, I understand the PM looks on Cowley with favour.
Minister: He'd make a dangerous enemy.
Dawson: For you, Sir?
Minister: For either of us.
Minister: If I should cross swords with Cowley, for whatever reason —
Dawson: Do you think it could come to that?
Minister: It might. In such a confrontation, where will you stand, Nigel?
Dawson: You could rely on my discretion, and complete support, Sir.