It takes about eight hours for everyone to file past the despatch box to take their oath and shake hands with the Speaker.
That is the true Dibdin tone, with Zen - a man never free of his past - despatched to a kidnapping case in Perugia.
It was a clear penalty, which Gomez stepped up to calmly despatch past Costel Pantilimon.
Their decisive goal came through a stirring forward burst by midfielder Andy King, who barged past several challenges before despatching a well-struck shot.
In the past, he notes, the despatch of a US carrier battle group was seen as the escalatory trump card, because there was very little that potential adversaries could do against them.
Collison's first league goal looked to have ended the Hammers' miserable five-match winless run, as the 20-year-old despatched a fine, curling finish past Tim Howard on 63 minutes following excellent work by Craig Bellamy.
O'Brien then inexplicably gifted possession to Sow, who despatched the ball with ease past Jamieson.
He battled past Andre Dirrell in Nottingham, lost to Mikkel Kessler in Denmark, dominated Arthur Abraham in Finland, and despatched Glen Johnson in Atlantic City to earn a place in the final, where he was out-boxed by a very special Andre Ward.
These would be to look for signs of past or present life by digging down into the soil; and packaging, or caching, rocks that can be picked up and despatched to Earth laboratories by a subsequent mission.
The smile of relief he displayed after despatching the first said everything about the pressure he felt as he shaped to shoot, and the joy he experienced when the ball swept past Friedel and rippled the net.
Sartre is despatched in three sentences.
