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Quotes
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DI Fred Thursday : I'm sorry. I've made a mess of things. I love you.
Win Thursday : Sorry was all I wanted.
DI Fred Thursday : I know. I've loved you too long to stop now. Should have said it sooner. Better late than never.
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DI Fred Thursday : Who better than a copper to know every filthy racket in the city?
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DI Fred Thursday : [about the wounded DCI Box] If he can pull through, maybe we all get a second chance.
DS Endeavour Morse : [bitterly] George didn't.
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DI Fred Thursday : I thought I was owed. I was wrong.
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DI Fred Thursday : [interviewing the mathematician Nicholson about his taste for erotica] Racy go for a numbers man, I'd have thought.
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DI Fred Thursday : [angrily returning the bribe-money to Box] I had a mad half-hour, that's all. It's over.
DCI Ronnie Box : Have a drink. You're not thinking straight.
DI Fred Thursday : I'm thinking straight for the first time in a long while. Maybe for the first time since George Fancy.
DCI Ronnie Box : Fancy? That's what's got you by the tail? It's nothing to do with this.
DI Fred Thursday : It's everything to do with this! He stood for something. I take this, I might as well piss on his grave!
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Councillor Clive Burkitt : On the other hand, if Morse could be persuaded to do the right thing...
DI Fred Thursday : He's an idealist.
Councillor Clive Burkitt : Sure, we all are.
DI Fred Thursday : Maybe once, Councillor. Now you're just a villain. Same as this two-bob shitehawk.
[gestures towards McGyffin]
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DI Fred Thursday : [angrily, to Jago, after the latter has insulted Morse] I don't care what you didn't mean! You'll treat your colleagues with respect or I'll know why!
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Win Thursday : I've seen someone. A solicitor.
DI Fred Thursday : Right.
Win Thursday : We can't go on this way.
DI Fred Thursday : No.
Win Thursday : You in Sam's old room, me in ours.
DI Fred Thursday : I never asked for that.
Win Thursday : No. Well, it's done now.
DI Fred Thursday : Is it?
Win Thursday : I think so.
DI Fred Thursday : Right.
Win Thursday : It doesn't have to be nasty.
DI Fred Thursday : No.
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DI Fred Thursday : [to Box, after the latter proves not to be the leader of the corrupt faction] Is he working you with his foot or what?
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DI Fred Thursday : [describing Page's burgled home] There was a map of the Gower Peninsula, with one or two things written on it.
DS Endeavour Morse : Page was a rambler.
DCI Ronnie Box : What was on the map?
DS Endeavour Morse : "H.B."
DI Fred Thursday : And something in Greek.
DS Endeavour Morse : "Anemoi".
DI Fred Thursday : The wind gods, apparently.
DCI Ronnie Box : [sarcastically] Well, I think we can leave them off the suspects roster.
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Professor Ernest Burrowes : I live alone. A confirmed bachelor. Another old fossil.
DI Fred Thursday : You and me both, professor.
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DCI Ronnie Box : There's two types of people, Fred. Those who take, and those who get taken. I know which side I'm on.
DI Fred Thursday : [emphatically] So do I.
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DI Fred Thursday : If Page was worried about Binks, why didn't he come to us, report him missing?
DS Endeavour Morse : Maybe he was afraid.
DI Fred Thursday : Of what?
DS Endeavour Morse : If a senior councillor is involved, who knows how far it goes?
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Mr. Jenkins : [interviewed by Morse and Thursday] Dr. Nicholson? About the fun and games, is it?
DS Endeavour Morse : What fun and games?
Mr. Jenkins : The stuff left in his cubby, sir. Bits of metal. An amulet, I suppose you'd call it. With Greek writing or something on it. One of the undergrads said someone's been writing the word "Dora" on his blackboard.
DS Endeavour Morse : Dora?
Mr. Jenkins : That's right, sir. In the lecture hall and in his tutorial.
DI Fred Thursday : How long's this been going on?
Mr. Jenkins : About a month or so, I suppose. I've offered to call the police before now, but he didn't seem too keen.