- Adele Cecil: This anagram: "Around Eve"? I've tried and I've tried, but all I can come up with is "Endeavour". And no-one's called Endeavour. Surely?
- Chief Inspector Morse: I told you, my mother was a Quaker. And Quakers sometimes call their children names like Hope and Patience. My father was obsessed with Captain Cook, and his ship was called Endeavour. Why aren't you both laughing?
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: [mutters] You poor sod.
- Adele Cecil: I'm not calling you "Endeavour".
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: Call him "Sir". He likes that.
- Adele Cecil: Oh no. No, I'll stick to "Morse" - like everyone else.
- Chief Inspector Morse: [raises beer glass] Cheers.
- [to Morse]
- Adele Cecil: People who like crosswords have blanks in their lives, and they haven't a clue how to fill them in, don't you think.
- [She hands him a drink]
- Chief Inspector Morse: [berating Sir Clixby Bream] You deserve *ten years*!... The *sooner* you leave Oxford, the *better*!
- Dr. Julian Storrs: Do you have witnesses when you're in bed with your wife?
- Chief Inspector Morse: I'm not married.
- Chief Inspector Morse: Work... that's the secret of life. You have to buckle down and, uh, give it your best, and, uh, that's what my father said.
- [Geoffrey Owens suggests that Morse should question his neighbours about the murder of Rachel James]
- Chief Inspector Morse: [sarcastically] Thank you, sir. It would never have occurred to me to question the neighbours.
- Chief Inspector Morse: You're quite sure of the time, Mrs Storrs?
- Angela Storrs: When you get to our age, Inspector, it happens so rarely you remember every single detail.
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: [Talking about Strange] Well he is getting on.
- Chief Inspector Morse: No, he's not! He's the same age as
- [Looks at a laughing Lewis and stops with a frown]
- Chief Inspector Morse: .