The Offence

"They wouldn't know Christmas from pancake bloody Tuesday."

"The more I drink, the more sober I get."

"Here in a room like this one, you find something about yourself. Something like the truth."

"Every single thing I've ever felt, wanted to feel, in one moment - hitting him. I had to hit him again. Somehow, I didn't have any choice. I wanted what he could give me, sitting there, letting me hit him. I wanted that. He knew. He was saying, like, "Welcome home." I had to kill him."

"Nothing I have done can be one half as bad as the thoughts in your head. I wouldn't have your thoughts!"

"You've found it, haven't you? Something like the truth? Does it surprise you? Shock you? It's there in everyone. You must know that better than anyone. Surely you know that, eh? Of course, you think just everyone else, not you. I suppose, being a policeman, you have to. Twenty years thinking you're different. It must get to be a habit, thinking, "Thank God I'm not those other men." It's difficult. It's dangerous. But you're just the same, you see. In some ways you're one hell of a lot worse."

"You think you're a hard case? I was shouting and swearing when you still wet your bed."

"You're right about one thing. I don't want to be fair. I came here because I was told to go. I was told I had to talk to you. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to waste 10 seconds on you. It makes me sick, Johnson, what you did. What you are turns my stomach."

"Sean Connery - Detective Inspector Johnson"

"Trevor Howard - Lieutenant Cartwright"

"Vivian Merchant - Maureen Johnson"

"Ian Bannen - Kenneth Baxter"