Midsomer Murders (TV Series)

Small Mercies (2009)

John Nettles: DCI Tom Barnaby

Quotes 

• DCI Tom Barnaby : [Referring to the corpse's stab wound]  How much force was used?

  Dr Bullard : None was needed. As I've said so many times before, our Creator was guilty of a few design faults when he made human beings. Vital organs too close to the surface of the skin.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Oh, but, George, he gave us a brain to compensate.

  Dr Bullard : That was the biggest design fault of all.

• DCI Tom Barnaby : [Referring to the village of Little worthy]  You see, Jones, you look at this. You'd think you were in some kind of rural paradise, but how wrong you'd be!

• [last lines] 

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Bernice. Would it matter very much to you if I told you that *Harriet* Compton was not your real mother?

  Bernice : Not now, no. Too late to care.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Tell me about your life before you came here, in Goodmansland.

  Bernice : Ah, not much to say.

  [sings] 

  Bernice : And the tree in the hole / And the hole in the ground...

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Well, didn't they miss you when you decided to leave?

  Bernice : There was only Mary.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Your adoptive mother.

  Bernice : Yeah. She didn't want me to go, but she died just before I left.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : What'd she die of?

  Bernice : Apparently she drank something that didn't agree with her.

  [sings] 

  Bernice : And the tree in the hole / And the hole in the ground / And the green grass grows all around, all around, and the green grass grows all around. / And on this tree there was a limb / The prettiest limb you ever did see / The limb on a tree / And the tree in the hole / And the hole in the ground / And the green grass grows all around, all around, and the green grass grows all around.