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Dr. Max DeBryn : [intervening in the quarrel between Morse and Thursday] You want to carry on like that, you find yourself another pathologist! Am I understood?
DS Endeavour Morse : Max, I'm sorry...
Dr. Max DeBryn : [unexpectedly thundering] AM I UNDERSTOOD?
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Violetta Talenti : I'm afraid.
DS Endeavour Morse : I can't help you.
Violetta Talenti : Then no-one can.
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DS Endeavour Morse : Let's not clutch at straws to save our blushes.
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DS Endeavour Morse : I'm a bagman, not a yes-man! I'm here to keep you on the straight and narrow and tell you when I think you're barking up the wrong tree. That is my job!
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DS Endeavour Morse : [introducing the Talentis to Thursday] This is Chief Inspector Thursday - this is Mr. and Mrs. Talenti.
Ludo Talenti : [shaking hands with Thursday, all smiles] Ludo, please.
DCI Fred Thursday : Ludo?
Ludo Talenti : That's right.
DCI Fred Thursday : What, like the game?
Ludo Talenti : [laughing] It's short for Ludovico. But, yes, exactly that.
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DS Endeavour Morse : [discussing Frazil's theories about one of the "accidents"] But they had no reason to suppose it wasn't an accident?
Dorothea Frazil : Well, I can't imagine they'd have paid up, otherwise.
DS Endeavour Morse : Oh, why? Did she get much?
Dorothea Frazil : He left her looked after. But it'd be a different story if it had been her who fell.
DS Endeavour Morse : How's that?
Dorothea Frazil : Their son had got into debt and she sold off her life policy without telling her husband.
DS Endeavour Morse : Right. And if she'd gone off the balcony, Mr. Jones wouldn't have earned a thing.
Dorothea Frazil : Not a sou.
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DCI Fred Thursday : [a ferocious quarrel has erupted between Thursday and Morse] You stand there, looking down your nose at everyone - you're no better than any of them!
DS Endeavour Morse : I didn't say I was.
DCI Fred Thursday : You didn't have to. It's the way you carry yourself. Nobody's good enough!
DS Endeavour Morse : [looking meaningfully at Thursday] No, there was one person. But he lost his way.