At the Nag's Head, Slater says to Boycie "Give my love to Marlene, everyone else used to." This indicates that Marlene went to the same school as Boycie, Slater, Del, and Trigger, but in "Fatal Extraction", Del and Boycie both seem to remember Marlene as the girl that worked in a betting shop down Lewisham Grove.
Rodney: Wherever I lay my hat, that's my home. Trigger: You've got a hot now, have you, Dave?
(The Trotters are in seperate cells, the scene shifts to each of them one by one) Slater: Right! Down to business! The face that dropped the microwave oven in the market! What did he look like? Del: Oh, he was about average height. Grandad: He was a great big tall fella! Rodney: Oh, he was little more than a dwarf! Slater: Age? Rodney: About 25. Grandad: Middle 50's! Del: He was just a kid! Slater: What about his ethnic group? Del: Well, I didn't notice anyone with him! Slater: No, I mean was he Caucasian? Grandad: No he was a white fella! Rodney: He was African, I think!
Slater's wife (who is revealed to be Del's girlfriend and future wife Raquel) is mentioned here, but does not appear until "Dates".
DI Slater calls Del "My old oppo". This is naval slang for a friend or "opposite number", someone doing the same job as you.
Del: What are you stitch Grandad up with, eh? Demanding protection money from the local Derby and Joan club? The Derby and Joan club is a club for older people, very popular in the UK. The name comes from a poem published in 1735 about a fun loving couple.
Cockney rhyming slang - "Yeah, all except the poor sod who's gone down the kermit!". The Kermit is del-boyism of his own development of cockney rhyming slag, usually Kermit the Frog is the "bog" or toilet - here it means Road, from frog and toad...
DI Slater tells the arrested Trotter family "No conferring", to which Grandad replies "It's bleedin' starters for ten now!". This is a reference to University Challenge, a quiz show where teams of students competed against each other. Conferring with the team was not allowed on a starter question, which was worth ten points.
Grandad: You've done so much boot-licking you could be going down with cherry blossom poisoning. This refers to Cherry Blossom shoe polish, a British product first produced in 1906.
DI Slater: No, you're deaf, dumb and blind these days ain't ya? I bet you're a wizard on the pinball machine. This is in reference to The Who's "Pinball Wizard" which includes the line "That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball."
"May the Force Be with You" is a line of dialogue from the Star Wars films by George Lucas.
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