Quotes
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DI Fred Thursday : I'm all for a beer at lunchtime. There's nothing wrong with that. But when you're on duty with me, you'll lay off the spirits. I've seen too many go that way.
DC Endeavour Morse : What way?
DI Fred Thursday : You think I missed all the bottles around your flat? Six months, you'll have enough off the empties to put down for a second-hand car. Booze can be a good servant, Morse, but it's a lousy master.
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[last lines]
DI Fred Thursday : Copley-Barnes gave me an earful. Said he'd remember *you*.
DC Endeavour Morse : Vainglorious fool like that? Doubt it. Too self-obsessed by half. I can't help feeling like I've missed something.
DI Fred Thursday : You have. Your round. And it wouldn't be the first time. You don't want to let a little tripe-hound like Todd bother you.
DC Endeavour Morse : I'm not.
DI Fred Thursday : Good. Right.
[unwraps sandwich]
DC Endeavour Morse : Luncheon meat.
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DI Fred Thursday : [confronting Mallory] Soho. This afternoon. You and your pal had a high old time at the expense of one of mine. Suppose you tell me what it was all about?
Mallory : Suppose we don't.
DI Fred Thursday : Then I'll have to take off my hat.
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Chief Superintendent Bright : How is he? I ask with no side.
DI Fred Thursday : He's young. He'll mend.
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DI Fred Thursday : [dismissing Val Todd] His sort's nowt a pound - and shit's tuppence. That's what my grandma used to say. Northerner.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [after being ordered to take sick leave] A few days off? I just got back!
DI Fred Thursday : Does it sound like a request?