Inspector Morse (TV Series)
Fat Chance (1991)
John Thaw: Chief Inspector Morse
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Quotes
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Nun : [Morse has been questioning a patient] Come out of there at once and leave my patient alone.
Chief Inspector Morse : I'm sorry; I'm making enquiries.
Nun : Then you will make them to thin air outside the gates.
Chief Inspector Morse : I could compel you to co-operate.
Nun : Oh, you ridiculous man! Of course you couldn't. I answer to a *much* higher authority than the Thames Valley Police.
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Lance Mandeville : [as Morse is leaving the interrogation room] I stake my oath that Geoffrey is neither a murderer nor a thief, and may God forgive you, Chief Inspector.
Chief Inspector Morse : I doubt if your God would have much truck with the likes of me. At least I hope he wouldn't.
[He leaves]
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Chief Inspector Morse : Good morning!
Emma Pickford : I don't know whether I should be pleased or alarmed when I see you.
Chief Inspector Morse : I'm only pleased when I see you.
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Chief Inspector Morse : He's withholding information, sir!
Chief Superintendent Strange : [Indignantly] I've been looking at him on and off - checking. Spends most of his time on his knees, and that's where you'll be, I'm tellin' you, if you don't make this stick!
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[last lines]
[at a party, Morse is offered either orange juice or a can of Leopard lager]
Chief Inspector Morse : I'll have the orange juice.
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Hilary Dobson : [to Emma] Tell him! Tell him what's been going on here!
Chief Inspector Morse : [Dourly] Well, someone should tell me.