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Joss Bixby : Luck of the draw old man. One was damned and one was saved. The toss of a single coin. God called it, not me.
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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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Joss Bixby : Do you remember? We always used to go around the attractions, when the fair had closed and the punters had gone home... It was just you and me in the whole world.
Kay Belborough : It was never just you and me, though, was it?
Joss Bixby : No. But it is now.
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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.
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Joss Bixby : Well unless there's anything else, Inspector... It's a poor host neglects his guests.
DI Fred Thursday : Sir.
