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DCI Fred Thursday : [dismissing Mercer's sanitized account of his extra-marital affair] I might accept that from some lovestruck teenager, but not from a man who sells Lime Whip to earn his crust!
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DCI Fred Thursday : So maybe the child isn't Don Mercer's. Maybe it's Marty Bedlo's.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Mrs Porter was sleeping with two men now besides her husband?
DCI Fred Thursday : It's just speculation, sir.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : I don't know what the world's come to. Truly I don't. A man would come by greater moral instruction in a monkey house.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [after a corpse is discovered with a decapitated bird beside it] Anything out of the ordinary?
Dr. Max DeBryn : Besides the headless cockerel?
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Don Mercer : [about to be interrogated at police headquarters] About bloody time. Two hours I've been waiting. What am I supposed to tell my wife? Two hours!
DCI Fred Thursday : What'd you tell her Sunday? Work, was it?
Don Mercer : I think I'm owed an explanation.
DCI Fred Thursday : The woman you knew as Jilly Conway was murdered - strangled, to be precise. That enough explanation for you?
Don Mercer : [stunned] Christ!
DCI Fred Thursday : He's nothing to do with it. But you are.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [hearing that Mrs. Paterson has had her baby daughter] There's something decent, out of this. Got to look for the silver lining.
DS Endeavour Morse : Let me know when you find it. I'd hate to miss it.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : So it's got nothing to do with the killing of Linda Gresham?
DCI Fred Thursday : No, sir. They just crept into her killer's shadow for cover.
DC George Fancy : To kill her sister for money, though, it's...
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : People have done far worse for much less, Constable.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : A breakthrough before the quarterly figures are submitted would be to the general weal.
DCI Fred Thursday : Any word about the future of the station yet, sir?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : None that has been confided to me. The survival of the fittest, Thursday. If we are useful, we will endure.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [on the finding of a woman's body in an abandoned railway station] She could have screamed the place down and nobody'd have heard her.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [dismissing the two detectives from the Robbery Squad] Robbery? I shit 'em.
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Don Mercer : [explaining his affair with the murdered woman] I gave her a lift back to the station. It just started.
DCI Fred Thursday : Nothing "just starts", Mr. Mercer. Unless someone wants it to.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [reminded by Bright that his promotion means he now has a "more managerial role"] I'm not a manager, sir. I'm a doer.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [interrogating Don Mercer] Right now, you're the last person to have seen her alive - which in my book means you're halfway to the dock!
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DCI Fred Thursday : There's no easy way to put this, Mr. Porter; but at the time of her decease, your wife was carrying a child.
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Dorothea Frazil : [describing the girl murdered four years earlier] She was their only. Went to Headington Town Secondary. Prefect. Excelled in Home Economics, Music and Sport. A well-liked girl.
DCI Fred Thursday : Too much by somebody.