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DCI Fred Thursday : So you mind all the bits and pieces down here?
Dr. Moharram Shoukry : If by that you mean do I make sure no harm befalls the priceless artefacts of my people's ancient history, then yes, I mind the bits and pieces.
DCI Fred Thursday : No slight was intended, Doctor.
Dr. Moharram Shoukry : With the British, it never is.
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Charlie Thursday : You're the best of us, Fred.
DCI Fred Thursday : The best of us never came home.
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DS Endeavour Morse : How does someone start a policeman and end up a thief?
DCI Fred Thursday : Beavis, you mean? Well, you know as well as I do, that given the right circumstances, anybody's capable of anything. Plus, he had no family to keep him on the straight. Lot to be said for family.
DS Endeavour Morse : And what if you don't have any? Do you think that's how you end up your days? Alone in some two-bob kip, nothing but a bottle for company?
DCI Fred Thursday : That's his future, not yours. You'll make better choices.
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DS Jim Strange : [asked if Beavis's death could be a "revenge killing"] Nine years retired, sir. Bit late for revenge.
DCI Fred Thursday : [grimly] That's something it's never too late for.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [confronting Eddie Nero] Two of your properties burnt out. Now one of your arm-breakers draws the short straw. If I didn't know better, I'd say someone's trying to turn you over.
Eddie Nero : I'd like to see 'em try.
DS Endeavour Morse : Who wouldn't?
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DCI Fred Thursday : [discovering that Shoukry's son had been killed in the Six-Day War of the previous year] As one father to another, you have my condolences.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Thursday.
Charlie Thursday : Friend of yours, Fred?
DCI Fred Thursday : Evening, sir.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : I had no idea you were an habitué of Chez Andre. Please sit down.
DCI Fred Thursday : Oh, I'm not, er, usually, sir. My middle brother, Charlie, Chief Superintendent Bright.
Charlie Thursday : Bit of a mouthful. What do they call you at home?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Reginald.
Charlie Thursday : Pull up a chair, join us for a nightcap.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : No, no, really, I wouldn't wish to intrude on a family occasion.
Charlie Thursday : The more the merrier. I insist.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Well that's very kind of you. Thank you.
Charlie Thursday : [Clicks fingers] Hey! Another chair for our guest. Erm, what can I get you, Reg?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Reginald. I... I'll have a brandy, I think, if I may.
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DCI Fred Thursday : We'll get Nero, sir, sooner or later.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Will we? Division's eye turned upon Thames Valley? This race business? Now one of Neros racketeers stabbed to death in the street? It bodes ill, Thursday.
DCI Fred Thursday : We're still on the job, sir.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : I fear this time it might not be enough. "Except the Lord keep the city, the Watchman waketh but in vain."
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Eddie Nero : [under interrogation] I'm a great patron of the arts. Ask anyone that knows me.
DCI Fred Thursday : You wouldn't get out of bed unless there was a dollar in it!
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Eddie Nero : [defending himself as a landlord for immigrants] If they weren't renting off me, it'd be all on the council, wouldn't it? Should be some sort of civic award for people like me.
DCI Fred Thursday : [terminating interrogation] Don't hold your breath. Second thoughts... Go on, you're done for now.
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DS Jim Strange : [hearing Morse's deductions] Why, though? What's the motive? What possible link could a Hollywood star have with a one-armed doorman?
DS Endeavour Morse : [turning to Thursday] Well, actually, there is a connection - the same thing they have in common with you, sir.
DCI Fred Thursday : [the penny drops] Of course...
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Lambert Kegworth : [about Ken Bullings] When he was younger - yeah, he got in with a bad crowd; but he's a good lad at heart. And I should know, I've had the raising of him.
DCI Fred Thursday : How's that?
Lambert Kegworth : His mother upped and went off with a Canadian. He didn't want to be landed with another bloke's kiddy. So it's just been Ken and me. I've done my best by him.
DS Endeavour Morse : Why? Where was his father?
Lambert Kegworth : Tobruk. He was buried out there. Well, what was left of him. Panzer. Flamethrower.