Midsomer Murders (TV Series)

A Talent for Life (2003)

Laura Howard: Cully Barnaby

Quotes 

• Joyce Barnaby : Oh look! So sweet! The children look lovely in those huge bonnets.

  [laughing] 

  Joyce Barnaby : They're so serious.

  Cully Barnaby : With good reason. They're in the work house. Most of them will probably never reach adulthood.

  Joyce Barnaby : Well! This one looks cheery. What are they celebrating?

  Cully Barnaby : The end of the first world war...

• Sgt Gavin Troy : I didn't know libraries were your thing.

  Cully Barnaby : I kind of got talked into it. I'm setting up the exhibition in the hall tomorrow. So what brings you to Malan Bridge?

  Sgt Gavin Troy : Oh, you know, run of the mill stuff, interviewing an old age pensioner for assault.

  Cully Barnaby : Isobel Hewitt? Well, you won't catch her at home. She's rolled through here in a Jaguar. Apparently she likes to practice her skid control at the old airfield.

  [Troy sighs loudly] 

  Cully Barnaby : What?

  Sgt Gavin Troy : Is your dad ever wrong?

• [last lines] 

  Sgt Gavin Troy : I'll get the car, shall I?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Have to catch the exhibitions some other time, all right?

  Cully Barnaby : Okay, Dad.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Hang on Troy, coming with you.

• Sgt Gavin Troy : [discussng the deaths of Isobel and Dr. Goff]  And it could be a confrontation with a poacher that got out of hand. Then there's Margaret Seagrove, who we know fell out with Isobel. And we haven't even got to Quentin Roku, the gay antiques dealer toyboy.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Wait, could we keep a bit of an open mind on this one?

  Joyce Barnaby : The village has lost quite a character in Isobel. And what about the doctor? Was he well liked?

  Sgt Gavin Troy : I suppose so. Poor wife. She was obviously devastated. It's a bereaved partner as it really gets here. There's something about elderly people being bereaved when they've, you know, been in love for a lifetime. Suddenly all alone.

  Cully Barnaby : So you've not heard about his womanizing then, Doctor Goff? Serial, apparently.

• Gwen Dobson : Isobel Hewitt and Dr. Goff, dead as dead.

  Cully Barnaby : Why would anyone want to kill them?

  Gwen Dobson : Well, with Isobel, who knows? But Dr. Goff, probably one husband too many.