Quotes
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Frederick Mulcaster : [condescendingly] Now, see here, my good man. I'm sure you're a fine, dedicated public servant and all the rest of it...
DCI Fred Thursday : [cuttingly] I'm not your man, good or otherwise. I'm the Queen's man, and I'm here to see her peace is kept.
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DS Jim Strange : [at Blenheim Vale] What went on here?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Whatever it was, this time we get to the bottom of it.
DCI Fred Thursday : And Division?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Can't bury it twice. We'll have the truth. Whatever it costs!
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DCI Fred Thursday : I think over-privileged , entitled, arrogant young men, who run around hurting innocent people and never think they're going to answer for any of it, can always be relied to turn on each other like rats in a sack.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [urging Morse not to re-open the Blenheim Vale case] Why should you risk your neck?
DS Endeavour Morse : [emphatically] Because someone has to.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [about the dead tramp] Kicked to death, or stabbed with a broken bottle, according to Dr. De Bryn.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : I don't know what the world's coming to. Most days, I barely recognise it at all.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [about Raymond Swann's day of inactivity] It's a rum caper. Sit in a bus all day and not get used?
DS Endeavour Morse : [Said with dry irony] If he'd wanted to do that, he could have joined the real police.
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DCI Fred Thursday : What have you heard, Ron?
Ronnie Box : Rumors. Whispers in the dark. It's like trying to catch wood-smoke. One minute, you think you've got something, only to have it come apart in your hands.
