Inspector Morse (TV Series)
The Remorseful Day (2000)
John Thaw: Chief Inspector Morse
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Quotes
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[Morse recites Housman's poem "The Remorseful Day" to Lewis as they sit having a drink outside a pub]
Chief Inspector Morse : Ensanguining the skies / How heavily it dies / Into the west away; / Past touch and sight and sound, / Not further to be found, / How hopeless underground / Falls the remorseful day.
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[Morse's last words]
Morse : Thank Lewis for me.
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Chief Inspector Morse : Isn't it your round?
Detective Sergeant Lewis : Do you think another one's a good idea?
Chief Inspector Morse : Think? That's why I want it - to think. I don't drink for pleasure!
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Chief Inspector Morse : How about an informed guess?
Dr. Laura Hobson : Certainly not. I inform you, and then you do the guessing; that's the usual procedure.
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Chief Inspector Morse : It's your case, Lewis.
Detective Sergeant Lewis : Yeah, now it is, yeah. Was yours though, wasn't it first off?
Chief Inspector Morse : Strange mentioned that, did he?
Detective Sergeant Lewis : In passing.
Chief Inspector Morse : He didn't say why he took me off it by any chance?
Detective Sergeant Lewis : No. You must have some idea surely, sir.
Chief Inspector Morse : Hunh. Strange by name!
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[Sir Lionel Phelps boasts about his sex games with Yvonne Harrison]
Chief Inspector Morse : "Kinky rumpy-pumpy" is what my sergeant would call it.
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Chief Inspector Morse : Weddings and funerals, they loosen tongues in my experience; so eyes and ears, Lewis.
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[Morse is exasperated that Dr Hobson can't give a more accurate estimate of time of death]
Chief Inspector Morse : [ironically] Can't you be *less* precise?
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[Morse asks Lewis whether he noticed a car following him as he was following the bus with Harry Repp on board]
Detective Sergeant Lewis : Behind me?
Chief Inspector Morse : It's not the pantomime season, Lewis!
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Detective Sergeant Lewis : [about a satchel full of money] Well, it's obvious, isn't it? Blackmail!
Chief Inspector Morse : I don't like the obvious.
Detective Sergeant Lewis : Yeah, I know you don't, sir, but sometimes it's, it's just - obvious!