Peters’ killer is a professional of some kind who executed him quietly and in complete control. Montana 2014 starring Michelle Fairley & Ashley Walters & Sarah Mac & Lars Mikkelsen & Oliver Stark & Ryan Oliva & Dominique & Adam Deacon & Richie Campbell & Rocky Marshall et al, director Mo Ali, lazy rozzer
Oh my God! This is for a fucking hit or something, Sal. Dead Fish 2005 starring Robert Carlyle & Cassandra Bell & Gary Oldman & Terence Stamp & John Pearson & Kevin McNally & Elena Anaya & Andrew Lee Potts & Billy Zane & Karel Roden et al, director Charley Stadler, Abe
Where are you running to? I think you know. I Against I 2012 starring Mark Womack & Kenny Doughty & Ingvar Eggert Sigurosson & Sonia Balaco & John Castle & Robert Shannon & Epeli Taione & Paul McGrattan & Ian Keir Attard et al, directors Mark Cripps & David Ellison, blond gangsta
They call me Temper for a reason, little girl. Rollin’ With the Nines 2006 starring Vas Blackwood & Terry Stone & Simon Webbe & Robbie Gee & Mark Smith & Billy Murray & Naomi Taylor et al, director Julian Gilbey, Temper
There’s this organized ring dealing in forged papers on the continent. Assignment Redhead [aka Million Dollar Manhunt] 1956 starring Richard Denning & Carole Mathews & Ronald Adam & Danny Green & Brian Worth & Jan Holden & Hugh Moxey & Pater Swanwick & Elwyn Brook-Jones & Ronald Leigh-Hunt et al, director Maclean Rogers
The mobilisation of English fans on to German soil is beginning in big numbers. Daylight Robbery 2008 starring Paul Nicholls & Shaun Parkes & Geoff Bell & Vas Blackwood & Johnny Harris & Leo Gregory & Max Brown & Shaun Williamson et al, director Paris Leonti
Has anyone here got first aid training? ibid. robber in bank
If I know anything about women, I’d say she’s too clever by half. The Blue Parrot 1953 starring John Le Mesurier & Dermot Walsh & Jacqueline Hill & Ballard Barkeley & June Ashley & Richard Pearson & Ferdy Mayne & Victor Lucas & Edwin Richfield & Arthur Rigby & Valerie White & Diane Watts et al, director John Harlow, rozzer to rozzer
He’s an American. They take over anything. ibid. bird to bird in Blue Parrot club
Is the joint always as gay as this? ibid. undercover rozzer in club to bird
How many more times do I have to tell ya: I didn’t organise the rackets, I was the fall guy. The Sicilians 1964 starring Robert Hutton & Reginald Marsh & Ursula Howells & Alex Scott & Susan Denny & Robert Ayres & Eric Pohlmann & Patricia Hayes & Warren Mitchell & Robert Caldicot et al, director Ernest Morris, Di Marco opening scene
Has Philip become a gangsta? Twenty8k 2012 starring Stephen Dillane & Parminder Nagra & Jonas Armstrong & Nichola Burley & Kaya Scodelario & Michael Socha & Kierston Wareing et al, directors David Kew & Neil Thompson, sister
No-one had ever had a leaving party before because no-one had ever been anywhere before. Goodbye Charlie Bright 2001 starring Paul Nicholls & Roland Manookian & Danny Dyer & Phil Daniels & David Thewlis & Jamie Foreman & Frank Harper & Dani Behr & Brian Jordan & Lucy Bowen & Nicola Stapleton et al, director Nick Love, commentary
Want to rest at my place? Junkhearts 2011 starring Eddie Marsan & Tom Sturridge & Romola Garai & Candese Reid & Shaun Dooley & Bhasker Patel & Debra Baker & Chris Coghill et al, director Tinge Krishnan, Hero to her
It’s about your dad. ibid. her to daughter
Woody, a Soho hustler and fixer, agreed to be filmed for a week. Pimp 2010 starring Robert Cavanah & Billy Boyd & Martin Compston & Gemma Chan & Corey Johnson & Scarlett Alice Johnson & Barbara Nedeljakova & Robert Fucilla & Danny Dyer & Wil Johnson, director Robert Cavanah
Welcome to the Pole-Cat Club. ibid. young Stan
You useless bunch of moronic twits. The Wrong Arm of the Law 1963 starring Peter Sellers & Bernard Cribbins & Lionel Jeffries & John Le Mesurier & Davy Kaye & Nanette Newman & Arthur Mullard & Reg Lye et al, director Cliff Owen, Sellers
We thought you was the IPO mob. ibid. little gangsta
I have a little problem. Well, maybe not that little. [opens freezer door] She was a drug mule … Better get her inside quick. I think she’s defrosting. Spotless s1e1: One Hand Clapping, Canal+ 2015, Martin
Yes. Heroin. A lot. I want you to cut her open, get the drugs out, I sell it … ibid.
For a job well done. Mr Clay may call upon you in the future. ibid. delivery boy
I accept his refusal to get involved in my business. You’re free to go. Spotless s1e2: Carrot & Stick, Mr Clay
We’re done now. Don’t come back. I don’t need you here. ibid. Jean to Martin
I know a lot of stuff, Jean. A lot of damaging information. ibid. bent rozzer
I believe you know DCI Tom Kendrick. ibid. Mr Clay to Jean
I want you to make it look like suicide. Is it possible? Spotless s1e3: Not a Place, a Circumstance, Mr Clay to Jean over stiffy
We are like the banks, mate. We are too big to fail. Property, Security Narcotics, import, export. The day we go under, half the men will have to sell their holiday homes. ibid. son of Clay to Martin
You gotta be smart. Keep your head down. Plan an escape. Sometime somehow it will go wrong. ibid. Martin to Jean
Do you ever think about it? … No, about the guy you killed. He had a wife and kids. Spotless s1e4: Someone’s Son, Someone’s Daughter, Martin to Jean
I loathe you. And I own you. You’re going to have a very long and successful career. ibid. Clay with Jean to murderer
I’m making plans. You should too. ibid. youngest son of Clay
Nelson’s brother fucked a dead girl today. I had to burn the body. ibid. Jean
He will kill you too. When it suits him. Spotless s1e5: The Power of No, condemned Frank to Jean
We believe all these men to be missing. Possibly dead. Bodies never recovered. Spotless s1e6: Fallowfield, rozzer to Jean
It’s what he’s been telling the other children. About what his father does for a living. ibid. son’s teacher to Julie
There’s a second book: we’ve been running two job diaries. It’s for clients who can’t go through the usual channels. Spotless s1e7: Say What You See, Maureen to Julie
If I find out you’re in contact in person or by phone or you get so much as a craving for a shish kebab, I will end you. ibid. Nelson to Jean
Two phones, two bosses, no way out. ibid. Jean to Martin
You’re just a thug who read a book once and nothing more. ibid. Jean to Nelson
Untie me now. I will only take revenge on your friend here. I will not repeat the offer. Spotless s1e8: True Love Weighs, Nelson to young gangstas
We have to finish. You know that, don’t you? Spotless s1e9: Rebound, Nelson to wife, Nelson’s wife to Martin
Commercial property long term is permanent wealth. ibid. Nelson to Victor
We would need the body for twenty-four hours at most. She will be returned to you, untouched, in perfect condition. No-one would ever have to know. Spotless s1e10: To Victor the Spoils, Jean to mortuary assistant, with Martin
Peter Rachman was far more than the brutal gangster he was portrayed as. He had lived an extraordinary life … The English judged him: he was hated with an overwhelming disgust as the face of evil … On the surface there was the overt racism against the immigrants that Rachman was bringing into Notting Hill … Rachman’s property empire was a brutal and violent one but it was doing something that polite English society completely refused to do: he was giving people on the very margins of society – prostitutes and black immigrants – somewhere to live … They hated him for it. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head I: Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain, BBCiplayer 2021
‘This is Peter Rachman: one of Britain’s big-time twentieth century racketeers.’ ibid. Panorama
Behind the polite veneer of the middle classes there was a hard ruthlessness and a suspicion of others. DeFreitas [Rachman heavy] gave it a name: he called it Englishism, it came he said from both an anger and melancholy at the loss of their empire. Then, Peter Rachman died of a heart attack. And Michael DeFreitas suddenly found that he was the new face of evil. ibid.