Quotes
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Chief Superintendent Bright : [satisfied] Her Royal Highness put everyone quite at their ease. A marvellous quality, don't you think?
DI Fred Thursday : [interested] She spoke to you then, sir?
Chief Superintendent Bright : [delighted] Oh yes. Protocol dictates of course that one has to wait for Her Royal Highness to speak to one first, of course.
[telephone rings]
DS Peter Jakes : Morse, phone.
[Morse goes to answer the phone]
Chief Superintendent Bright : [satisfied] "Have you come far?" she said. Just like that. Regular, familiar as you please. "Have you come far?"
DC Endeavour Morse : [answering the phone] CID. Morse.
Chief Superintendent Bright : [repeating what Her Royal Highness said] "Have you come far?"
DI Fred Thursday : [interested] What did you say?
Chief Superintendent Bright : [delighted] That I hadn't.
DI Fred Thursday : One for the memoirs, sir.
Chief Superintendent Bright : [delighted] Yes, I think we can all take pride that everything went off without the slightest hitch.
DC Endeavour Morse : [hangs up and enters the room] That was British Imperial, sir. A body's been found at the factory. Looks like murder.
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[last lines]
DC Endeavour Morse : [exits the factory and meets DI Thursday after the killer is arrested] You want me to run you back?
DI Fred Thursday : [after a short pause] Go on then.
[they approach the car]
DI Fred Thursday : Are you doing anything tonight?
DC Endeavour Morse : [simply] No.
DI Fred Thursday : I was after a cod and and two penn'oth. Glad of the company if you'd like to join me.
DC Endeavour Morse : What? No sandwiches?
DI Fred Thursday : [surprised] On a Saturday? Talk sense!
[factory workers go back inside the factory as Morse and Thursday get in the car and drive away down a street lined with red, blue and white coloured triangular flags]
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Crown Prince Nabil : The Prophet, peace be upon him, teaches us, "Say what is true, though it may be bitter and displeasing to people."
DI Fred Thursday : We have a not dissimilar saying. Tell the truth, and shame the Devil.
DC Endeavour Morse : You should be aware that to take receipt of stolen property is an offense in law.
Crown Prince Nabil : As you should also be aware, Constable Morse, we are not the same little people Colonel Lawrence left behind. We learned much from our colonial masters. Perfidious Albion. An unkind name to hang upon a country. But not perhaps wholly undeserved.
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DI Fred Thursday : What have you got?
Dr. Max DeBryn : Not enough room to swing a cat, as you can see.
Chief Superintendent Bright : What is that - a screwdriver?
Dr. Max DeBryn : Driven into the right ocular orbit with some considerable force.
DC Endeavour Morse : Death would have been instantaneous?
Dr. Max DeBryn : More or less.
Chief Superintendent Bright : No chance it could have been an accident?
Dr. Max DeBryn : [sarcastic] Not unless he picked himself up and dragged himself in here.
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DI Fred Thursday : What's all this, then?
DC Endeavour Morse : Well... nothing, probably.
DI Fred Thursday : Nothing with you usually means something. So... out with it.
DC Endeavour Morse : [indicating Percy Malleson's shoes] Well, it just struck me as odd, that's all. "Cribb and Co." - there's another pair of these at Malleson's flat. There can't be many on the assembly line at BIEC wearing hand-made shoes.
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DI Fred Thursday : [after he has insulted Dr. Volk, the German rocket scientist] It was him and a lot more like him flattened my street.
DC Endeavour Morse : I'm sure it wasn't personal.
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DI Fred Thursday : Why did you all deny knowing her?
Henry Broom : Why not? You couldn't find her 12 years ago. Why rake over it all now?
Johnny Broom : People would only gossip. Why give them ammunition? Never apologize, never explain.
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DI Fred Thursday : Is that the Chief Constable's car I saw earlier?
Chief Superintendent Bright : [in despair over his future] Thirty-four years! If this matter touches the palace, I've been left in no doubt as to where the buck comes to rest.