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Quotes
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DS Endeavour Morse : I'm just trying to keep an open mind. That's the job, isn't it?
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Lady Bayswater : [angry at being interrogated by police] Why should I tell you people anything? Another time, another place, I could have had both of you shot! Just like that - snap of my fingers!
DS Endeavour Morse : [unmoved] Well, that was then. This is now. If you'd like to see a penny of your stepdaughter's inheritance, you will co-operate with us fully. Is that clear?
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DS Endeavour Morse : They say you're never so alive as when you're close to death. Well, maybe the reverse is true.
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DS Jim Strange : What happened to you last night? Never came home. This Frenchy piece, is it? What's her line, then?
DS Endeavour Morse : Photo-journalist.
DS Jim Strange : Figures.
DS Endeavour Morse : How's that?
DS Jim Strange : Well, let's face it, with you it was never going to be Doreen from the corner shop, was it? Bit of all right, is she?
DS Endeavour Morse : I suppose. She's just a girl.
DS Jim Strange : Just a girl? You want to leave some of that for the rest of us. Claudine... that blondie one... the way you've been filling in your dance card, you'd think rationing was coming in.
DS Endeavour Morse : She's good company.
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DS Endeavour Morse : Her stepmother's Lady Bayswater.
DCI Fred Thursday : Charity Mudford?
DS Endeavour Morse : Mm. I saw her at the debating society yesterday.
DCI Fred Thursday : What do you make to her?
DS Endeavour Morse : Well, she's got guts, I'll give her that. When you know everyone in the room would have liked to have seen you hanged, it takes a certain amount of sangfroid to smile back.
DCI Fred Thursday : Or just a brass neck. It's a wonder she can show her face at all.
DS Endeavour Morse : Well, she seems pretty unrepentant. Defiant, even. Did Hitler really dance at their wedding, do you think?
DCI Fred Thursday : Unlikely. But they did stop off at Berchtesgaden for a few days on the way back from their honeymoon.
DS Endeavour Morse : Why did she come back to England?
DCI Fred Thursday : Who knows? Maybe we all come home in the end. Did you see Sam?
DS Endeavour Morse : He's going to be fine. He's in the clear.
DCI Fred Thursday : Comes to the army, nobody's ever in the clear, only the dead.
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DS Endeavour Morse : Anything?
DCI Fred Thursday : All quiet on the Western. The word is out for Cromwell Ames from here to Brum and all points else. Not a peep. Not a whisper.
DS Endeavour Morse : What about Eddie Nero?
DCI Fred Thursday : Lying low. If there is a term for it, it's "gone underground".
DS Endeavour Morse : Lull before the storm, maybe?
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Col. Champion : If you've ever wondered what a hero looks like, you've just met one. Colonel McDuff is the bravest man I ever saw.
DS Endeavour Morse : What's the matter with him?
Col. Champion : Korea, Imjin River. 4,000 of ours against 27,000 of theirs. It's a night action. Close quarters, wave after wave. A third of the battalion were killed or wounded, including Mad Jack McDuff, who took a mortar round. When the order came to fall back, he stayed behind to give the rest of us a chance. Had two years in a Chinese prison camp. If he drinks too much and sleeps with the light on, then, so be it. He's earned the right.
DS Endeavour Morse : Yeah, but all the same...
Col. Champion : No, Sergeant Morse, there's no "all the same" about it. The regiment takes care of its own.
