Shoestring

[Terry Bowen has bought a seaside cottage, which he's planning rent out to holidaymakers and has arrived at the property to evict the current tenant]

Terry Bowen:
Come on, come on! I know you're in there. Come on, open the door, I'll kick the bloody thing in!

[a man in the garden of the house nearby the cottage peers over the hedge at Bowen, Bowen stares back and the other man looks away. He turns back to see a man inside the house peering through a window in the door]

Terry Bowen:
Come on, come on, open up!

[the door opens and the man stands in the doorway]

Mr. King:
Yes?

Terry Bowen:
Mr King?

Mr. King:
Yes?

Terry Bowen:
My name's Bowen. Terry Bowen.

[Mr King doesn't answer. Bowen spells out his surname in a loud voice, because he thinks the old man is deaf and/or hard of hearing]

Terry Bowen:
Bowen, B-O-W-E-N. I own this cottage.

Mr. King:
Oh, no, no. No, this cottage belongs to the farm.

Terry Bowen:
Not any more it doesn't. This is an order for you to vacate the property.

Mr. King:
I... I don't understand.

Terry Bowen:
You don't understand? Then you should've listened to the other men who came to see you, shouldn't you?

[Mr King tries to shut the door, but Bowen puts his foot into the gap]

Terry Bowen:
Listen, I want you out of here, double bloody quick!

Mr. King:
I've always lived here.

Terry Bowen:
Well, I'm sorry, Grandad, but when the law says you've got to go, you've got to go! This is a holiday cottage and it belongs to me. So out you go! On your bike or you're not going to like what happens to you, Grandad, got it?

Major Ross Hansford:
Some sort of a radio detective.

Eddie Shoestring:
[smiles] Some sort.

Eddie Shoestring:
[to Major Hansford] Killing me isn't going to end it.

[Tom, the grandfather of the girl who has gone missing, and his friend Ralph threatened to beat up Eddie if he didn't reveal her whereabouts once he discovered it. Eddie is now showing Erica his sketches of them]

Erica Bayliss:
D'you mean one of those two gorillas is actually the little girl's grandfather?

Eddie Shoestring:
Yeah, that one. Said he was anxious to be of assistance. He even offered to break both my kneecaps just to show his enthusiasm.

Erica Bayliss:
Hmmm. Very nice. What will they break if you actually find father and daughter?

Eddie Shoestring:
I dunno. Dennis Philips' skull, I suppose. He isn't exactly top of grandad's popularity poll.