Quotes
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Kay Belborough : Why does Bruce call you "Pagan"?
DC Endeavour Morse : Long story. It's a joke - at my expense. It's because I don't have a Christian name.
Kay Belborough : [laughing] You must!
DC Endeavour Morse : Not one that I care to use.
Kay Belborough : What does it start with? I bet I can guess.
DC Endeavour Morse : [realizing she means it] Kay?
Kay Belborough : Hold out your hands. Now look into my eyes. A? B? C? D? E? F? It's E, isn't it?
DC Endeavour Morse : [intrigued] Quite a trick. Where did you pick that up?
Kay Belborough : A misspent youth. Don't change the subject. E for what?
DC Endeavour Morse : Embarrassment, mostly.
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DC Endeavour Morse : How'd you find me?
DI Fred Thursday : It's my lung's got a hole in it, not my brain.
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DC Endeavour Morse : Zambezi was right. There's no real magic in this world. Only love. The rest is just smoke and mirrors.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [undecided about returning to the police] Why would you go back - after everything?
DI Fred Thursday : There's a town needs looking to. That hasn't changed just because I've dropped a suit-size. Throw the towel in now and it was all for nothing and the bastards won.
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DC Endeavour Morse : Bixby didn't belong in their world any more than I do. Did. I wanted to tell him that the last night I saw him. That he was better than that.
DI Fred Thursday : Nobody gets to choose. The further a man runs away from his nature, the sooner it'll find him out.
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Elva Piper : What do you do, Mr Morse?
DC Endeavour Morse : Nothing. At present.
Elva Piper : Are you one of the idle rich?
DC Endeavour Morse : Idle, certainly.
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DC Endeavour Morse : You live in the shadows long enough, you forget the sunlight.
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Joss Bixby : [Morse has mentioned Jeannie Hearne] That's twice I've heard that name tonight. The first person to ask was a policeman.
DC Endeavour Morse : [With a solemn look] So's the second.
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DC Endeavour Morse : I thought... It doesn't matter how far you run, or how hard you scrub. It's there. The stench of it. Everything we touch.
DI Fred Thursday : It gets so you don't notice.
DC Endeavour Morse : That's what worries me.
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Joss Bixby : I'm afraid there are things to which I must attend. Do you have everything you want?
DC Endeavour Morse : Which of us can answer yes to that? Present company, obviously.
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Joss Bixby : [shortly before his planned attempt on the world water-speed record] On a night like this, a man might believe that anything's possible. Will you come and watch tomorrow, when I go for the run?
DC Endeavour Morse : [emphatically disapproving] I've seen enough death.
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Joss Bixby : What's your line? If you don't mind me asking.
DC Endeavour Morse : Didn't Anthony say?
Joss Bixby : He said you'd had a bit of trouble somewhere. He didn't say what kind. I didn't press him. He's discreet.
DC Endeavour Morse : Let's just say I'm reviewing my options.
Joss Bixby : Well, I could use a good corner-man. Why don't you come and work for me, while you make your mind up.
DC Endeavour Morse : Doing what, exactly?
Joss Bixby : Keeping me out of trouble, in the main.
DC Endeavour Morse : Why, do you get much of that?
Joss Bixby : Anyone who ever made a deal made an enemy.
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Joss Bixby : I was at Harvard myself. But all the important things in life, I learned at the tables. You a betting man?
DC Endeavour Morse : My father played the horses. One gambler in the family's quite enough.
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Joss Bixby : You get to know the truth of a man at cards.
DC Endeavour Morse : And what's the truth of you? Who's the real Joss Bixby?
Joss Bixby : I wonder myself, old man. I wonder myself.