MI-5 (TV Series)

The Sleeper (2004)

Matthew Macfadyen: Tom Quinn

Quotes 

• Tom Quinn : You're a free man. You're a free man. You don't have to do this.

  Prof. Fred Roberts : I want to. I've made my choice.

  Tom Quinn : No Fred, I'm am begging you, please don't.

• Harry Pearce : I'm decommissioning you, Tom.

  Tom Quinn : Oh, don't be ridiculous, Harry.

  Harry Pearce : You are no longer an officer of the Service.

  Tom Quinn : Danny, Zoe, come on!

  Zoe Reynolds : [sighs]  Just leave it.

  Tom Quinn : Come on, back me up!

  Danny Hunter : How exactly can we do that?

  Tom Quinn : Because we understand each other, we always have!

  Danny Hunter : Not anymore.

• [last lines] 

  Tom Quinn : Everybody safe? Fred's family? What about Lawrence Sayle? You get him?

  [laughs wryly] 

  Tom Quinn : Oh, of course, you can't tell me. I'm a member of the public now.

  Harry Pearce : You are. I envy you.

  Tom Quinn : I doubt that.

  Harry Pearce : No, I mean, if this thing is really leaving you, then...

  Tom Quinn : The spy thing? The urge to be secret, to give a false name, lead a false life.

  Harry Pearce : You'll get the really, very generous special pension.

  Tom Quinn : Payoff, for rogue officers here.

  Harry Pearce : You won't be disciplined, Tom.

  Tom Quinn : Thanks for that.

  Harry Pearce : And of course, you realize, we'll never meet again.

  Tom Quinn : Yeah.

  Harry Pearce : Good luck in the real world.