Shallow Grave (1994)

Ken Stott: Detective Inspector McCall

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• Detective-Inspector McCall : Only three people here? You're sure?

  David Stephens : Yes, absolutely. Who said there were four?

  Detective-Inspector McCall : Make a note of that, Mitchell. Only three, rather than four. Write it down. You can use numbers or words. I have no preference. Which are you using?

  Detective-Constable Mitchell : Both, sir.

  Detective-Inspector McCall : Excellent.

• Detective-Inspector McCall : In your work you must meet lots of different people every day. New people, new faces, no?

  Juliet Miller : Yes.

  Detective-Inspector McCall : What do you recognize most, names or faces?

  Juliet Miller : Diseases.

  Detective-Inspector McCall : Like recognizing criminals by their crimes.

• Detective-Inspector McCall : And the other three people living in the flat?

  David Stephens : There are only two other people living in the flat.

• David Stephens : [David is being interviewed by detectives McCall and Mitchell about the burglary in the flat]  So I just heard her cries for help and all that. And when I went downstairs there were already those other people there. So I just stood around, you know, waiting - the way people do. And when your colleagues arrived, I came back upstairs. That's about all I think. I didn't actually see anything useful, I don't think.

  Detective-Inspector McCall : And the other three people living in the flat, did they hear anything?

  David Stephens : There are only two other people in the flat.

  Detective-Inspector McCall : [looks quizzically at Mitchell then flips through his notebook]  Two?

  David Stephens : Who said there were four?

  Detective-Inspector McCall : We understood there were four people living here. Not always, of course, but now. Four.

  David Stephens : No, three. Who said there were four?

  Detective-Inspector McCall : [looks to Mitchell]  How strange. And how unsatisfactory to have misleading information.

  [looks back to David] 

  Detective-Inspector McCall : Only three people here? You're sure?

  David Stephens : Yes, absolutely. Who said there were four?