- [last lines]
- Esther Lane: Have you read this medical questionnaire you've got to fill in if you want to train to be a diver?
- Brian Lane: Eh?
- Esther Lane: You are to seek medical advice if you answer yes to any of the following questions.
- [Brian groans]
- Esther Lane: Are you currently taking any prescribed medication?
- Brian Lane: Yeah, well...
- Esther Lane: Have you a history of alcohol or drug abuse in the past five years?
- Brian Lane: Five! That's a bit stringent.
- Esther Lane: Have you any history of mental or psychological illness of any kind, fear of small spaces, crowds, or panic attacks?
- Brian Lane: Wasted all that money.
- Esther Lane: Well, it doesn't have to be wasted. We could always wear the rubber suits.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: My responsibility is to see that the job is done.
- Gerry Standing: Yeah, but that's not why you're doing it, is it? You want to prove something, don't you? That you're top girl; the best, the fastest, the bravest!
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Balls!
- Gerry Standing: The very word, and you want some.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: No, no no no. What's pissing you off is the fact that a girlie is doing things you can't do; it's called old-fashioned male chauvinism.
- Gerry Standing: Yeah, well, maybe so. But whatever you want to call it, what's *pissing* me off is the fact I have to hang around like a spare part when you might be in danger.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Gerry, that's reall...
- Gerry Standing: And if you say that's sweet of you, I'll punch your lights out!
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: You and whose army?
- [Gerry is describing how he used to lust after diver Lotte Haas wearing a swimsuit when he was nine years old]
- Gerry Standing: I've always had a thing for older women.
- Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman: Now there aren't any!
- [first lines]
- Jack Halford: If the Good Lord had intended man to dive underwater, he'd have put lead weights in his head.