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Quotes
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DI Fred Thursday : [unwrapping his sandwiches] Let's see what we shall see.
DC Endeavour Morse : You'll see ham and tomato.
[Thursday finds that combination]
DC Endeavour Morse : Thursday.
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Mr. Brian Quinbury : What an old wreck. I turned 20 that month. Can you believe it? Throwing a machine around the sky at 360-odd miles an hour. My son's a year older now than I was then. He doesn't even drive yet.
DC Endeavour Morse : It must have been terrifying.
Mr. Brian Quinbury : Later, perhaps. When the piano stops and the beer runs dry but... Not in the moment. It happens so fast. Then it's over and you find yourself alone out on the edge of it. The light up there, my God, and this patchwork below. You fall in love.
DC Endeavour Morse : With what?
Mr. Brian Quinbury : England. "Her ways to roam."
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DC Endeavour Morse : Didn't you go to Sunday School?
DS Peter Jakes : [grimly] You don't want to know where I went.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [asking Luisa about her acquaintance with Thursday] You were friends - in Italy?
Luisa Armstrong : More.
[after a meaningful pause]
Luisa Armstrong : Comrades.
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Rufus Haldane : [after Morse has asked about the "eternity" symbol] It's a lemniscate. Introduced into mathematics in the mid-17th century by John Wallis. It stands, almost invariably, for infinity.
DC Endeavour Morse : Does it have any other significance?
Rufus Haldane : It symbolized eternity and the soul of the world; and, of course, in modern mysticism, it represents Ouroboros.
DC Endeavour Morse : The snake that devours its own tail.
Rufus Haldane : Yes. Just so.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [assessing the murder victims] Three married women - not one of whom has been found wearing a wedding ring.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [investigating the death of Norman Parkis] It's connected to the strangler.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : To the strangler? By what means?
DC Endeavour Morse : The stockings he's used on the last two victims. Burridge's is...
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : ...the only place that supplies them. But, outside of that, the victim is, in this instance, male and he's been stabbed rather than strangled - which leads me to believe that the enquiry should be assigned to another investigating officer.