Uncustomed Goods: Part 1

The Bletchley Circle 2×3

& Barkdale: The businesses we supply staff to will only employ people with an unblemished record.
    Alice: I was found innocent. I was acquitted.
    Barkdale: Yes, but you were in prison. And in the newspapers.

& Alice: A sideline?
    Millie: Import-export. Until they take me off the blacklist and I can get more translation work.
    Alice: Do you mean the black market?
    Millie: The war is over, remember? There is no black market any more. This is just flying a little bit below the radar.

& Millie: Can you get any more nylons?
    Jasper: I can get silk. They don’t want silk, they want nylons.

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& Lucy: How does it go from one bottle of scent to putting someone in prison?
    Ben: A lot of filing and paperwork.

& Jean: We need Susan for this!
    Alice: Well, Susan’s in Bombay... Come on, it’s signal flow, isn’t it? London’s just like a giant electrical circuit. Input, output. All these little lines and branches, like a wiring diagram. What we need to do is trace where the signal wants to go.
    Jean: What signal, exactly?
    Alice: Our Maltese friends. A specific set of people, behaving in one specific way.

& Ben: What do you fancy? Lemon sole... manure?
    Lucy: Yeah. It sounds lovely.

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