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Plainclothes - First Episode

Television (Full Length Episode) – 1995

You're putting a lost backpack ahead of a missing woman.
– Detective Sergeant Samuels (Rhondda Findleton) challenges Detective Sergeant Mitchell (Alan Dale) after he overrules her about case priorities
Surprised you did I? ...Not as big a prick as you thought I was.
– Detective LP Pitt (Sean Duffy) ribs Detective Sergeant Samuels (Rhondda Findleton)
I've already got the job. Why would I have to prove anything?
– Detective Sergeant Samuels (Rhondda Findleton) spars with Detective Sergeant Mitchell (Alan Dale)
Any more wooden Gordon, they'd be checking you for borer...
– TV reporter Helena Mitchell (Carmel McGlone) provides feedback, after interviewing her ex-husband Mitch Mitchell (Alan Dale)
Come on Rosie. If you dribbled any more we'd have to put you in a bib.
– Constable O'Connor (Gillian Baxter) ribs Constable 'Rosie' (Erik Thomson) about his dedication to the case of a French tourist (Brigitte Berger)
...this tourist thing is getting bigger than Ben Hur.
– Detective Sergeant Mitchell (Alan Dale) feels political pressure to investigate Auckland's tourist crimes