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Quotes
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DS Jim Strange : [rhetorically, as he reacts with anger to Dr. Shoukry's anti-British sentiments] They forget who built the Suez Canal in the first place!
DS Endeavour Morse : It was the French.
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Dr. Moharram Shoukry : The detective and the archaeologist. Perhaps we are not so different after all.
DS Endeavour Morse : How's that?
Dr. Moharram Shoukry : We both speak for those who cannot. You with your fingerprints and me with my fragments of pottery. We are each of us, I think, keepers of the dead.
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DS Endeavour Morse : How does someone start a policeman and end up a thief?
DCI Fred Thursday : Beavis, you mean? Well, you know as well as I do, that given the right circumstances, anybody's capable of anything. Plus, he had no family to keep him on the straight. Lot to be said for family.
DS Endeavour Morse : And what if you don't have any? Do you think that's how you end up your days? Alone in some two-bob kip, nothing but a bottle for company?
DCI Fred Thursday : That's his future, not yours. You'll make better choices.
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[Max is doing the post mortem on Ronald Beavis]
DS Endeavour Morse : He'd been to the Roxy on Pym Street. Some sort of horror season. Do you go in for that?
Dr. Max DeBryn : Cruelty, torture and Kensington Gore? For some of us, it's horror season all year round.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [confronting Eddie Nero] Two of your properties burnt out. Now one of your arm-breakers draws the short straw. If I didn't know better, I'd say someone's trying to turn you over.
Eddie Nero : I'd like to see 'em try.
DS Endeavour Morse : Who wouldn't?
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DS Endeavour Morse : [squeamish whilst Max is examining Beavis's corpse] Couldn't have a turn through his pockets, could you?
Dr. Max DeBryn : [indicating Beavis's false teeth in a glass by the bedside] He won't bite.
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DS Endeavour Morse : [discussing George Fancy with Trewlove] Don't say you're warming to him!
WPC Shirley Trewlove : I suppose he's got a certain eager, puppyish charm, if one goes in for that sort of thing.
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DS Endeavour Morse : The thing about mistakes is not to repeat them.
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DS Jim Strange : [to Morse, after seeing Carol leaving] Who's your friend?
DS Endeavour Morse : Just a girl.
DS Jim Strange : Thought you were off the birds. There's tea in the pot.
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DS Jim Strange : [hearing Morse's deductions] Why, though? What's the motive? What possible link could a Hollywood star have with a one-armed doorman?
DS Endeavour Morse : [turning to Thursday] Well, actually, there is a connection - the same thing they have in common with you, sir.
DCI Fred Thursday : [the penny drops] Of course...
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Lambert Kegworth : [about Ken Bullings] When he was younger - yeah, he got in with a bad crowd; but he's a good lad at heart. And I should know, I've had the raising of him.
DCI Fred Thursday : How's that?
Lambert Kegworth : His mother upped and went off with a Canadian. He didn't want to be landed with another bloke's kiddy. So it's just been Ken and me. I've done my best by him.
DS Endeavour Morse : Why? Where was his father?
Lambert Kegworth : Tobruk. He was buried out there. Well, what was left of him. Panzer. Flamethrower.
