Michael Brooke credited as playing...
Tony Halliday
- [as Tom Halliday is preparing to leave, his wife and son can be seen having breakfast in the kitchen]
- Tony Halliday: Dad? You haven't forgotten about the air display tomorrow, have you? We'll get there early, won't we?
- Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday: [smiles] We'll see the very first plane take off.
- [Halliday takes a drink before walking over to his wife and kissing her]
- Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday: Bye-bye, my dear.
- Mary Halliday: Bye-bye.
- [Tom Halliday is in the kitchen of his home with his wife and son. As he's preparing for work, his family is having breakfast]
- Tony Halliday: I say, Dad... when are they gonna get the gang that stuck up that cinema?
- Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday: Give them time.
- Tony Halliday: Are you on that case?
- Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday: No.
- Tony Halliday: [looks at his mother] He is! I bet he is! He didn't look me in the eye.
- Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday: [looks directly at his son] I am not on that case.
- Tony Halliday: Well, it's time they put you on!
- [Halliday smiles and exits the kitchen]
- Tony Halliday: Gosh, I wish you'd been there when it happened!
- [having finished a conversation with his father. Tony Halliday can be seen having breakfast with his mother]
- Mary Halliday: Tony.
- Tony Halliday: Yes?
- Mary Halliday: The policeman who was there was killed.
- Tony Halliday: I know he was. But I bet he wouldn't have been if Dad had been there.
- [as Tony and his mother continue talking, his father can be seen entering the view]
- Mary Halliday: It's ages since you've had a really decent case. You know, like Maltese Eddy!
- Mary Halliday: [somewhat annoyed] You are a horrible child!
- Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday: [looks at his son] Listen you! The days when your father, trembling with fear...
- [Tony laughs]
- Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday: ... mixed with the elements of the underworld are passed. I'm glad to say! Today, he directs, controls, and administers from an office chair.
- [Mary begins laughing as Halliday gently rubs his sons head as he leaves]
- Detective-Superintendent Tom Halliday: Bye all.
- Tony Halliday: Goodbye.