Ashes to Ashes, from the BBC, tells the story of Alex Drake, a female detective who gets shot and, while in a coma, gets beamed back in time and has to work on the London police force in 1981.
Her boss is DCI Hunt, an old school policeman who beats up witnesses for information, has a filthy mouth, smokes all the time and drives a red Audi Quattro. The slang for boss is "Guv", short for Governor.
In tonight's episode, DCI Hunt gets beaten up. The next morning he comes into the station and doesn't want to talk to Alex. As she pursues him, wanting to talk, he asks to be locked up in a cell so he can get some peace.
His staff, two numbskulls, Chris and Ray, are standing with Alex, wondering what is going on.
"Perhaps it's one of 'em nervous breakdown things," says Chris."Nah," says Ray. "If the Guv saw a nervous breakdown comin', he'd twat it in the face."