A04 Killer With A Long Arm

Writer: Brian Clemens
Director: David Wickes
Original Broadcast: UK: 20.01.1978
Episode Availability: DVD: UK Video: UK
Novelisation: The Professionals 1: Where the Jungle Ends by Ken Blake [0 7221 5340 6]

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

Guest Cast:
CID Sergeant · Howard Bell
Betty · Bridget Brice
Mervin · Antony Carrick
Pretty Girl · Suzanne Danielle
Tommy · Jonathan Hyde
Poacher · Hal Jeayes
Hilda · Diane Keen
Costa · Milos Kirek
Georgi · Michael Latimer
Carter · James Leith
Barbara · Mitzi Rogers
Tarkos · Alan Tilvern

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CI5 become aware of an assassination plot involving a rifle with a range of over two miles. But where is the gunman and who is his target?

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[Heading to meet one of Doyle's old contacts]
Doyle: "What do you know about Greeks, Bodie?"
Bodie: "The fellows all dance together and the cops shave their heads."
Doyle: "They are a tight-knit community."
Bodie: "Yeah — ghetto time."
Doyle: "Don't knock it. Ghetto means being able to depend on your own kind."
Bodie: "So you and me are a mobile ghetto, eh?"

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Bodie: "Now he didn't ask you to dance, hm? I think you've offended him."
Doyle: "Should have seen me in my prime."
Bodie: "Now seriously, Ray, you were great back there, you know. So cool, in command. Good trick, that."
Doyle: "That's not a trick. It's just being...offensive."

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[Bodie and Doyle working late at HQ]
Bodie: "It's a secretary's job. Or a job that needs a secretary. How 'bout Betty — come on, let's get her along."
Doyle: "Oh, Betty's left. She left for home hours ago. Anyway, it'd ruin your concentration, starting a new romance now."
Bodie: "New? For an ex-cop you rate low in observation, Doyle."

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Bodie: "I'm puzzled. If you thought we were off duty, why'd you come looking for us in the rest room?"
Cowley: "Because there's one thing you and I share, Bodie."
Doyle: [mutters] "Same secretary."
Cowley: "Eh? We share an animal instinct. A nose for trouble. You too, Doyle. You can't teach it, you can't learn it. You've either got it or you haven't got it."