A05 Heroes

Writer: James McAteer
Director: William Brayne
Original Broadcast: UK: 27.01.1978
Episode Availability: DVD: UK Video: UK
Novelisation: The Professionals 2: Long Shot by Ken Blake [0 7221 5341 4]

Cast:
CI5 Agent William Bodie · Lewis Collins
CI5 Controller George Cowley · Gordon Jackson
CI5 Agent Raymond Doyle · Martin Shaw

Guest Cast:
Latymer · Anthony Bailey
Huntley · Thomas Baptiste
Mr Sumner · David Baron
John Jerry Patterson · Bruce Boa
CI5 Agent Tommy McKay · John Castle
Bride · Gay Close
Tincan · Rufus Collins
Security Man · Peter Craze
Raider · Jonathan David
Lorry Driver · Peter Davidson
Raider · Chris Dillinger
Raider · Neil Kennedy
Mr Lewis · Robert McBain
Lorry Driver's Mate · Jim McManus
Estate Car Driver · Ralph Michael
Bridegroom · Christopher Neil
The American · Kenneth Nelson
News Reporter · Valentine Palmer
Lady In Sports Car · Luan Peters
Raider · Damien Thomas
Mrs Lewis · Dorothy White

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A newspaper irresponsibly publishes the names of witnesses to an assassination. CI5 must protect them as well as apprehend the killers.

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Doyle: "Be cool with Tommy — you know he's crazy."
Bodie: "Cowley wouldn't accept that. No one in the Big A's crazy."
Doyle: "Motivated, then. His whole family was wiped out by terrorists, you know."
Bodie: "Unlucky."
Doyle: "Yeah."
Bodie: "That they overlooked Tommy."
Doyle: "That's a lousy thing to say."
Bodie: "Tommy's a lousy thing to be. He's a killer."
Doyle: "And what makes you so different?"
Bodie: "The difference is, Doyle, I do it, but I don't enjoy it."

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Cowley: "So they're out there somewhere, unaware." [The witnesses on honeymoon]
Bodie: "I shouldn't think they're out, sir. More likely in. Behind locked doors, curtains drawn. It's what newlyweds usually do, sir. So I'm told."
Cowley: "In the middle of the day? Don't judge everyone by your own standards, Bodie."

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[Cowley catches his men off-guard, then is caught off-guard himself]
Bodie: "Told you you'd enjoy yourself, sir."

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[At the stake-out of Sumner's]
Bodie: "Doyle?"
Doyle: "Yeah?"
Bodie: "You forgot to bring any beer."
Doyle: "No, I didn't. I remembered."
Bodie: "Did you?"
Doyle: "Yeah, 'course I did. I remembered not to bring any."

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Bodie: "I'm like a fine piece of machinery — I need lubrication."
Doyle: "Yeah, well, too much lubrication and that fine piece of machinery might finish up with a bullet up its crankcase."

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Bodie: "He sits there a safe distance away and sends in a psychopath to keep us company. I tell you, Cowley is —"
Doyle: "Bodie..."
Cowley: "The radio is open, Bodie. But continue with your interesting assessment. 'Cowley is...' Cowley would like to know what Cowley is."
Bodie: "Would you believe warm and considerate?"