Sweeney 2 (1978)

John Thaw: Det. Insp. Jack Regan

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Quotes 

• Det. Insp. Jack Regan : No DOGS. The last time we had dogs, they bit every man present but the villains.

  [pause] 

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : I think they train them to bite squad officers.

  Soames : That's not true, sir.

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Will you belt up, Soames. Who fuckin' asked you?

• [McKyle is defending Superintendent Jupp on corruption charges. Regan refuses to testify as a character witness for Jupp] 

  McKyle : [pompously]  My client is a distinguished police officer with whom you had a close working relationship for the past three years.

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Your client is so bent that it's been impossible to hang his pictures straight on the office wall for the past twelve months!

  McKyle : Isn't there such a thing as loyalty?

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Loyalty is like a girdle: it should stretch two ways.

• [while helping Carter to arrest a man at a brewery for poisoning the beer with arsenic, Llewellyn has got very drunk on the brewery's produce] 

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : [to Carter]  Well I always said you couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery. Seems I was wrong.

• [to relieve the boredom during a stakeout, Llewellyn is watching busty young women walk past] 

  Llewellyn : Oooh. Look at that. Shouldn't be allowed. Fancy showing out in weather like this. Look, there's another one. Why does her mum give her a raincoat?

  Det. Insp. Jack Regan : Why don't you belt up?

  Llewellyn : It's a combination of nerves and smoking too much - I get this hard-on like a milk-bottle.