- Carly: Hi, Liz. I've got Mo, for the Twitter Q and A? Finn said you'd take care of it.
- Liz Garvey: [watches as Finn walks by flipping the bird at her] I am sure he did.
- Carly: So, Mo was responsible for an 18 percent reduction in street drinking offenses in his area. Plus, he introduced a new dog-fouling initiative.
- Liz Garvey: Dog-fouling. That's great. That's something we can all get behind. It's not like there's a pro-dog-shit lobby.
- Mo: It's a start. We're still implementing.
- Tom Oliver: Roberts was heavily tipped in '06, but the feeling was he was a bit of a fart in the bath, politically speaking.
- Finn: Forget Roberts, forget Collins. Look at all these bald, boring, white bastards. It's like staring into the crowd at a fucking Genesis concert.
- [to Charles]
- Finn: You're the alternative, and we shouldn't be afraid to lean into that.
- Charles Inglis: Do you know what this force was like 30 years ago? It wasn't very friendly towards black people. I mean, the lads on the van were all right, if you could take a joke. But it wasn't all that easy to get promotion. It was harder for me. But, yeah, things change. Except, now people look at me and they say, Oh, has he had a few favors? Is he really all that? And I don't talk about that. No, I don't even mention that, because people don't need much to have you down as chippy, you see, or difficult. So, I don't give them the chance. So, if you think that after swallowing all that, I'm going to let one single shitbag say I got this job through anything other than sweat, shoe-leather, and ability then, with all due respect, you can fuck right off.
- Sharon: One thing, Liz. I am not your sock puppet. You don't get to put your hand up me and draw on some googly eyes and then flap my mouth about.
- Liz Garvey: Look, Sharon, this place is on fire. It is burning to the ground. Richard, the Jeffries shooting. And do you know what Finn is doing? He's bolting the front door and he is locking all the windows, and now Charlie's going 'round and he's collecting all the fire extinguishers and he's dousing them in petrol and he's burning them all. Fire extinguishers. On fire! I can make this place work better than it does. And I'm not gonna say that that's my calling, because that would make me sound crazy, but I am not crazy. I am fucking Mary Poppins. I was brought here to fix this thing that needs fixing because none of you could do it yourselves, and I am gonna finish what I started. What Richard started. And once it is all done and all correct, I can put up my umbrella and I can disappear. And you all can go about your business.
- Sharon: Liz, if this was a roadside stop, this would be the point in the conversation where I'd ask you to step out of your vehicle.
- [first lines]
- David: [examining a paintball pellet] What is it, some sort of soluble polymer?
- [turns around]
- David: Alright, lads. I'm David. We're from First Chance Actuarial.
- Banjo: Banjo. We're from the ARVs. A building society.
- Tony: Yeah. Work jolly. You know how it is.
- Warwick: Sometimes you just gotta let off some steam, haven't you?
- Clarkey: I mean, we're not protecting an embassy, are we? It's hardly civil unrest, is it?
- Nobbo: I don't see the difference. You turn up, do what they say, go home, eat some beans, have a shit, and go to bed.
- Clarkey: The difference is, Nobbo, it's not public service. I will put myself in harm's way for a political exile. I'll do that all day long. But I will not take the bullet for a fucking mahogany bookcase.
- Nobbo: It's the same.
- Clarkey: Isn't the same.
- Nobbo: Well, it is for me, 'cause I don't give a shit about politics and I don't give a shit about furniture, either.
- Clarkey: We're doing more and more of them lately. One a week, two a week. What's this? Third one this week? Rent-a-cops. That's all we are. Crowd control and hand relief.
- Nobbo: Job. Beans. Shit. Bed.
- [last lines]
- Sharon: We did some great work today. We didn't find this one, but we'll find the next one.
- [pauses, exchanging a long look with Liz]
- Sharon: They tell you you're not allowed to cry. It's not true. Just not here. Sad day. Very sad.
- [starts to leave, then stops]
- Sharon: I've got Cathy to book us a meeting room. 9:15 tomorrow morning.
- [Liz nods]
- Sharon: I want us to get into campaign strategy.