- [first lines]
- Cyril: [screaming, restrained by police officers] I want to speak to Creegan! I want to speak to Creegan!
- D.I. Susan Taylor: [jokingly] Anybody fancy anything from the canteen?
- [watches the officers struggle with Cyril]
- D.I. Susan Taylor: Just give us a shout if you need a hand, lads.
- D.C. Mark Rivers: A tenner on the big guy.
- D.I. Susan Taylor: [after watching Creegan interview Cyril] What was that all about?
- Dave Creegan: That? That, that was Cyril Golding. Nostradamus of the underworld.
- [dials his phone]
- Dave Creegan: This is D.I. Dave Creegan. I'm new in. I'm on extension 2161, if anybody needs to get through. Thanks.
- D.I. Susan Taylor: [after examining Creegan's notes] So you're snout's what, some kind of psychic?
- Dave Creegan: [taking his notes from Taylor] Look, I pretend I can do shorthand. Cyril, he pretends he's a psychic, yes.
- D.I. Susan Taylor: Wow, good luck to you.
- D.I. Susan Taylor: Have you spent a long time alone recently?
- Dave Creegan: Why?
- D.I. Susan Taylor: Well, if you're not going to talk, I'll have to grab a couple of hitchhikers.
- Cyril: [at a cafe, eating] I don't like where you work.
- Dave Creegan: You getting upset 'cause they gave you a hard time?
- [He pauses and pulls photographs out of his jacket pocket, placing them in front of Cyril]
- Dave Creegan: I'm investigating the disappearance of three kids. What can you give me?
- Cyril: [between mouthfuls of food] They're gonna die.
- Dave Creegan: But they're not dead? Cyril, those murders you saw when you came to my office, was it these?
- Cyril: [nodding] I saw it.
- Dave Creegan: Yeah?
- Cyril: Through the clouds.
- Dave Creegan: Yes, but was it these?
- Cyril: I don't know. Can I have a pudding?