Quotes
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DS Endeavour Morse : [talking about school sporting activities] I was always the last to be chosen - the one neither side wanted on the team.
DCI Fred Thursday : [emphatically - last line] I chose you.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : [after the case has concluded] Is this what it's come to, Thursday? Gunmen roaming the streets, political violence?
DCI Fred Thursday : It's war. Undeclared, perhaps, but war all the same.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : A one-off, surely? Swift's crossed these people, upset them in some particular...
DCI Fred Thursday : I hope you're right, sir. But it feels more like the start of something than the end.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Pray God you're wrong, Thursday. I pray God you're wrong.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : And Morse - how's he these days?
DCI Fred Thursday : Morse is Morse, sir. You know more than anyone what last year took out of a soul. He walks a step slower, maybe.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Lost some of his bounce, you mean?
DCI Fred Thursday : A bit less full of himself, a bit less cocksure. That's not always a bad thing. A bit of uncertainty, a bit of doubt, makes a man more careful in his work. More thorough.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Perhaps time does that to all of us, sooner or later. There are some blows from which one never recovers. Not fully, at least.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [confronting the killer of Margaret Widdowson] What was it? You thought she'd ask for more? That's usually the way with blackmailers. Or did you just want to make sure her mouth was shut?