The Shadow Line (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.7 (2011)

Nicholas Jones: Commander Penney (Retired)

Quotes 

• Commander Penney : [Penney explains the purpose of Counterpoint to Jonah]  We provide for the future - your future.

  Jonah Gabriel : Harvey Wratten didn't get one, and he was one of yours.

  Commander Penney : Gatehouse gave him an opportunity to retire. He didn't take it.

  Jonah Gabriel : So you made him by putting him in jail?

  Commander Penney : And then Glickman had this crisis of loyalty and told him about us, and Harvey threatened to tell everybody else unless we got him out. So, get him out we did.

  Jonah Gabriel : So then you gave the money to Gatehouse?

  Commander Penney : To buy drugs to give to Customs to get Harvey a Royal Pardon. And when he got it, I think we might have left it at that, everybody. It was so compromised. But Gatehouse decided to close Harvey's book. So that's what he did. And we've been cleaning up ever since.

• Commander Penney : [about Counterpoint]  He's starting it again, you know?

  Jonah Gabriel : Who?

  Commander Penney : Gatehouse. Whole new set of players.

  Jonah Gabriel : Who are they?

  Commander Penney : You think you can stop this? He'll kill you.

  Jonah Gabriel : He hasn't yet.

  Commander Penney : You can't stop this. That's what we were trying to do. Look what's happened to me.

  Jonah Gabriel : I can protect you.

  Commander Penney : [shaking his head]  It was foolish of me to think you could even try.