Quotes
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DI Fred Thursday : [angrily returning the bribe-money to Box] I had a mad half-hour, that's all. It's over.
DCI Ronnie Box : Have a drink. You're not thinking straight.
DI Fred Thursday : I'm thinking straight for the first time in a long while. Maybe for the first time since George Fancy.
DCI Ronnie Box : Fancy? That's what's got you by the tail? It's nothing to do with this.
DI Fred Thursday : It's everything to do with this! He stood for something. I take this, I might as well piss on his grave!
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DI Fred Thursday : [describing Page's burgled home] There was a map of the Gower Peninsula, with one or two things written on it.
DS Endeavour Morse : Page was a rambler.
DCI Ronnie Box : What was on the map?
DS Endeavour Morse : "H.B."
DI Fred Thursday : And something in Greek.
DS Endeavour Morse : "Anemoi".
DI Fred Thursday : The wind gods, apparently.
DCI Ronnie Box : [sarcastically] Well, I think we can leave them off the suspects roster.
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DS Endeavour Morse : [showing Box the two slips of paper he has found with writing in Hebrew on them] The first word means "truth", the second means "death".
DCI Ronnie Box : So?
DS Endeavour Morse : So... according to myth, they're the "words of power" which, when placed in the mouth of a golem, give it life.
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DCI Ronnie Box : There's two types of people, Fred. Those who take, and those who get taken. I know which side I'm on.
DI Fred Thursday : [emphatically] So do I.
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DS Alan Jago : [arriving at the Cranmer House disaster] What happened?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : [quickly taking command of everything] What happened is immaterial for the moment. All that matters now is the preservation of life.
DCI Ronnie Box : You think anyone could have survived that?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : [angry] I don't know. But if they did, it's up to us to get them out!