Midsomer Murders (TV Series)
Secrets and Spies (2009)
Jane Wymark: Joyce Barnaby
Quotes
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Joyce Barnaby : [to herself about Tom's returning to the case] Thank God for small murders!
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D.C.I. Barnaby : [Frustrated about restrictions put on him by the chief constable] I can't even speak to the sodding suspects. I, I am banned from the crime scene.
Joyce Barnaby : So, think laterally.
D.C.I. Barnaby : What does that mean?
Joyce Barnaby : I don't know. You're the one who's always telling me to do it.
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D.C.I. Barnaby : [DCI Tom Barnaby notices his wife Joyce Barnaby reading a spy novel about MI6] I was a spook once.
Joyce Barnaby : You were not!
D.C.I. Barnaby : I was. When I graduated from Brown's Hill, they asked me to join MI6.
Joyce Barnaby : Why?
D.C.I. Barnaby : 'Cause I spoke Russian.
Joyce Barnaby : But you don't speak Russian.
D.C.I. Barnaby : No, they got the wrong person; they really wanted Brenda Packard.
Joyce Barnaby : Brenda? In our WI? Grows big vegetables?
D.C.I. Barnaby : That's the chap! She's been with MI6 for years.
Joyce Barnaby : Goodness...
D.C.I. Barnaby : I tried it for a few months. Security Officer Grade Seven! Drank gallons of weak tea and, uh, played cricket in the corridors.
Joyce Barnaby : You never told me any of this!
D.C.I. Barnaby : Well no, Joyce. Secret, isn't it?
[DCI Tom Barnaby returns to reading his book as Joyce Barnaby looks on in astonishment]