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Ian Hendry, Alan Lake, and Jill Townsend in The Sweeney (1975)

John Thaw: Regan

Ringer

The Sweeney

John Thaw credited as playing...

Regan

Quotes11

  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: We're the Sweeney, son, and we haven't had any dinner - you've kept us waiting. So unless you want a kicking, you tell us where those photographs are.
  • [to Bernard Driscoll]
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: [threateningly] I'm gonna drown you in your own sweat if I find out you're involved!
  • Bernard Driscoll: Gentlemen, occasionally I do a little favour for Mr Kemble. Track tip, business gossip - that's all.
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: What favours have you done him recently?
  • Bernard Driscoll: Told you - I owed him money?
  • Det. Sgt. George Carter: What for?
  • Bernard Driscoll: A motor I bought for my old lady. Already she's scratched it and the dog's spewed up in the back. Why did Adam ever bite that apple?
  • [Carter is eating a pot of yoghurt. Regan looks on in disgust]
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: D'you eat much of that?
  • Det. Sgt. George Carter: About three a day.
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Yuk.
  • Det. Sgt. George Carter: [conspiratorially] Listen, this old Bubble told me it was an aphrodisiac. My wife won't buy it. So I get it delivered secretly - in handy thirty-gallon drums!
  • [Kemble tries to flee from the scene of the robbery by car. Suddenly Regan appears and points his gun at Kemble's head]
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: [menacingly] Switch off! Or they'll collect your head in a pillow-case.
  • Jenny Peters: Do all coppers have cold hands?
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Only the randy ones.
  • Edi Driscoll: Hey, how's that goldfish?
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Next door's cat got it.
  • [last lines]
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: [to Jenny] I forgot to lock your car.
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: [to "Stupid Hawes", who won't tell him where the photographs are] I don't like wasting time on rubbish like you, son!
  • Commander: Hey, you'd better make it, Jack, or I will personally bury you.
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Thanks. Do you want the heads mounted? On the wall?
  • [leaves the Commander's office]
  • Commander: Comedian.
  • Det. Chief Insp. Frank Haskins: Who the hell do you think you're talking to, Regan?
  • Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Do you want me to answer that?

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