![]() | Season 22 / Episode 2: - Cause to Kill Murray Fettle: You're taking the piss DCI Matt Burke: I'm taking nothing pal, but you are, starting with a murder charge Murray Fettle: Murder? DC: And possibly torture DCI Matt Burke: Don't make him think of two things at once Jackie, otherwise he's brain will overheat and he'll stop breathing |
![]() | Season 22 / Episode 2: - Cause to Kill DC: Do you think he's our killer? DCI Matt Burke: The only thing he's killing is his liver |
![]() | Season 22 / Episode 1: - Running Out Of Time DC Stuart Fraser: Can I be frank Mr Glass? Walter Glass: You can be whoever you like son. |
![]() | Season 21 / Episode 3: - Mind Over Matter Hookie Barclay: He came staggering out of that lane DI Robbie Ross: Staggering, was he injured? DI Robbie Ross: He was injured alright, been hit by a bar. |
![]() | Season 11 / Episode 1: - Hellfire Supt. Jack McVitie: We are going to get our bollocks chewed off for this DCI Jim Taggart: You'll have to sew mine back on first, Jean had them last night |
![]() | Season 10 / Episode 1: - Instrument Of Justice DC Jackie Reid: [at post mortem] You can't tell who was attacked first? Dr. Stephen Andrews: [shakes head and grunts negatively] DC Jackie Reid: That won't please the boss Dr. Stephen Andrews: If my work was judged on the sole criterion of bringing joy to Jim Taggart I wouldn't even bother getting out of my bed in the morning. |
![]() | Season 7 / Episode 1: - Violent Delights DCI Jim Taggart: Come on, I'll buy you both lunch. Jackie Reid: [to Jardine:] Do you think mourning has affected him? [referring to the recent death of Jean Taggart's Aunt Hettie, whom Jim passionately disliked] Mike Jardine: Mourning? He couldn't stand the sight of her! |
![]() | Season 7 / Episode 1: - Violent Delights DCI Jim Taggart: She lost Mrs. Campbell at Central Station, when she was putting her bag into the left luggage. Supt. McVitie: Is she going to open it? [Reid has mistakenly boarded a London bound train instead of opening the suspect suitcase] DCI Jim Taggart: She can't - she's at Carstairs Junction! My God... wimmen polis! |
![]() | Season 7 / Episode 1: - Violent Delights Mike Jardine: Not exactly a heavenly body... [when Jardine looks through Philip Dempster's telescope to see Taggart in the house on the opposite side of the road] |
![]() | Season 7 / Episode 1: - Violent Delights Jean Taggart: And a limousine too!... You never did anything for her when she was alive, now you do this! I'll never understand you, Jim! [Jean curses Taggart after he goes against Aunt Hettie's wishes and buys a top of the range coffin and hires a limousine for her funeral] |
![]() | Season 7 / Episode 1: - Violent Delights Mike Jardine: He's refusing to tell us which coffins he put the body parts into. We'll have to exhume the lot. DCI Jim Taggart: Well then, exhume the lot! Mike Jardine: That unfortunately includes your Auntie Hettie, sir. Supt. McVitie: Going somewhere, Jim? [as Taggart walks to the exit] DCI Jim Taggart: I'm away to see Jean, sir. Then... I think I'll emigrate! |
![]() | Season 6 / Episode 3: - Rogues Gallery Dr. Andrews: I've found a finger, Jim! [as he removes human remains from a compacted automobile] Jim Taggart: Mammy, Daddy! [staring into the sky in disgust] |
![]() | Season 6 / Episode 3: - Rogues Gallery Jim Taggart: There's a nutter running around Glasgow, pumping bullets into people, locking them in car boots. I don't want to give them a third chance! Mike Jardine: But sir... Jim Taggart: What is it with you? Are you in heat or something? |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 3: - Cold Blood Burger Van vendor: Hey, I'm the brains of this outfit! Jim Taggart: Your brains will be on the pavement unless you help us! |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 3: - Cold Blood Jim Taggart: [On hearing the dead man's wife had fired 6 bullets into the body] What did he do - forget their anniversary? |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 3: - Cold Blood Ruth Wilson: I'm glad he's dead! |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 2: - Funeral Rites DS: [grabs at victim as he almost falls into the quarry] Tommy! DCI Jim Taggart: [sarcastically] Are you trying to make his day? DCI Jim Taggart: [looks into quarry to see villain's car going under the water surface] Well, that's the easy part of it. DS: [stunned] Easy? DCI Jim Taggart: [grins] Now I have to go home and tell Jean she needs a new hairdresser! |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 2: - Funeral Rites DCI Jim Taggart: [to McPherson, who was thrown into a pile of cow manure] Go and get a wash, you're honking! |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 2: - Funeral Rites Supt. Jack McVitie: Jim, something interesting. Pat Connolly's record. Two years in Berlinnie for grievous wounding, same time as Abernathy. DCI Jim Taggart: Huh, so that's where they met. [sees funeral party] Sir, would you do me a favor? Ask that funeral party to go home. Bottle of whisky. Supt. Jack McVitie: Bribery, Jim? Is it true what I hear about young Jardine being a teetotaler and a churchgoer? DCI Jim Taggart: Aye, it's true. Supt. Jack McVitie: [smiles] Refreshing change. DCI Jim Taggart: What's that supposed to mean? |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 2: - Funeral Rites Dr. Stephen Andrews: If you want to know what killed him, I'd say asphyxiation. DCI Jim Taggart: He was buried alive! Dr. Stephen Andrews: I can think of a better death. DCI Jim Taggart: I can think of a better job right now. |
![]() | Season 3 / Episode 2: - Funeral Rites DCI Jim Taggart: By the way, Jean. Jean Taggart: Yes? DCI Jim Taggart: I don't mean to spoil your evening, but Colin Davidson's trying to murder Maggie. |
![]() | Season 2 / Episode 1: - Knife Edge Alex Dewar: I wouldn't chop up a woman, terrible waste. |
![]() | Unknown Episode: Det. Sgt. Jackie Reid: Michael Jardine died as he had lived - a brave and honest man. He was the best friend I ever had, and the worst boss. |
![]() | Unknown Episode: DCI Jim Taggart: There's been a Murder. |
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