The Waiting Game (III) (2014)

Max Davine: Detective Thomas Bird

Quotes 

• Sergeant Natalie Grant : What, they say we're the lucky country? We're just the lucky country because we're able to fit all these large buildings onto this tiny, little, heat-stroke island without having to branch out into the sea like Venice in Italy.

  Detective Thomas Bird : What've you got against Venice? It's the city of love.

  Sergeant Natalie Grant : [scoffs]  Venice is not the city of love. Paris is the city of love. Venice is the city of piss; the city of self-defeat, of ingenious and non-ingenious. I mean, the fact that they had to build...

  Detective Thomas Bird : You know what? Look, I like gondolas. This is the place. Let's go in.

• Detective Thomas Bird : How is she?

  Leigh Bird : Shaken like a martini, thanks for asking.

  Detective Thomas Bird : Oh, good, is that what they taught you in medical school? You know, if I wanted bullshit, I would've been a school teacher.

• Leigh Bird : [about the rapist after Jacquie has been attacked again]  He could've practised.

  Detective Thomas Bird : Practised on what do you think? Animals, dead things, kids, women? Women. He practises on women. That's how they do it. And he's getting braver; that's why he's got the knife now. *That's* practise.

  Leigh Bird : Well, it's not like I've any fucking practise, you know.

• Detective Thomas Bird : How're ya doing?

  Jacquie Delice : You've asked me that like 6 times already.