The Professionals (TV Series)

In the Public Interest (1978)

Paul Hardwick: Green

Quotes 

• [the draconian regime instigated by Chief Constable Green has just been toppled] 

  Chief Constable Green : It was Chives. He took it upon himself. Overstepped his authority.

  George Cowley : Chives was a runaway truck, careering downhill, running over the guilty *and* the innocent. A runaway truck. But *you* released the handbrake.

  Chief Constable Green : [horrified]  George!

  George Cowley : [snarling]  The name is Cowley! *Mister* Cowley! I don't know what we'll be able to make stick against you, Green, but I do know that whatever the outcome, you'll never have authority again. Not even to see kids across the road.

  Chief Constable Green : [plaintively]  My motives - what I did - I thought was in the public interest.

  George Cowley : Aye. That's the tragedy.