Endeavour (TV Series)

Harvest (2017)

Shaun Evans: DC Endeavour Morse

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• Dorothea Frazil : What's this, girl trouble?

  DC Endeavour Morse : I haven't got a girl.

  Dorothea Frazil : Maybe that's the trouble.

• DC Endeavour Morse : [interviewing Dowsable Chattox about the long-missing Dr. Laxman]  So why did he end up with a Tarot card in his pocket?

  Dowsable Chattox : I did a reading for him. And he took it.

  DC Endeavour Morse : That doesn't seem a particularly nice thing to do.

  Dowsable Chattox : He wasn't nice.

  DC Endeavour Morse : So - what? - he just did it out of mischief?

  Dowsable Chattox : More spite. Perhaps he didn't like what the cards had to say. Maybe he spoiled the pack because he thought he could change his future.

  DC Endeavour Morse : Why? What did the cards predict?

  Dowsable Chattox : That a woman would bring him to ruin.

• DC Endeavour Morse : [finding Dowsable Chattox's cottage door unlocked and going in]  Hello? Miss Chattox? Hello? Hello? My name's...

  [he suddenly realizes that Dowsable, whom he has never met before, has appeared , holding a double-barrelled rifle on him] 

  DC Endeavour Morse : .

  Dowsable Chattox : Morse. That's your name, isn't it? Morse. I been expecting you.

• Elliott Blake : [showing Morse around the nuclear facility]  Early work here enabled Britain to take its rightful place at the atomic table.

  DC Endeavour Morse : [unimpressed]  Keeping up with Uncle Sam?

  Elliott Blake : And Uncle Joe.

• DC Endeavour Morse : Evening, sir. I wondered if you had a moment. It's about my sergeant's exam. I've been thinking about what you said. About me leaving Oxford. You're right, there's nothing to keep me here. No family. I've been offered to join a new unit in London. It means rank.

  Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Well... It goes without saying, we shall miss your abilities, but... you must do what you think right. For an officer of your talent to remain at detective constable would be a waste of material. Believe me, Morse, I've seen it all too often. Better men passed over in favour of mediocrity because they weren't... clubbable.

  DC Endeavour Morse : So you think I should take it?

  Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : That's a matter entirely for you. If you'll forgive the presumption, you're a man, I think, more used to putting the concerns of others before himself. Perhaps in this instance, you should consider what's in your own best interests.

• DC Endeavour Morse : The equinox is science, Miss Chattox, not superstition.

• Dorothea Frazil : All well? You seem a little out of sorts.

  DC Endeavour Morse : My flat was burgled.

  Dorothea Frazil : Bad luck.

  DC Endeavour Morse : Maybe. Maybe someone's trying to tell me something.

  Dorothea Frazil : Like what?

  DC Endeavour Morse : Go west, young man. Or south. London, maybe. A man might lose himself there.

  Dorothea Frazil : You want to be lost?

• Elliott Blake : [about Professor Bagley]  Bramford probably wouldn't have existed without him. Professor Bagley proved vital to Britain's efforts in developing its own nuclear capability. Before he lost his way, of course.

  DC Endeavour Morse : How's that?

  Elliott Blake : His wife was with him at Rumera in the Montebello Islands for the first British nuclear tests. Later, she developed a particularly aggressive leukaemia.

  DC Endeavour Morse : And Bagley blamed himself?

  Elliott Blake : When she died, he recanted his admiration for atomic energy - disavowed his achievements.

  Dorothea Frazil : That's understandable, in the circumstances.

  Elliott Blake : Perhaps. But one can't disinvent the wheel.