Inspector Lewis (TV Series)

Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things (2011)

Stephanie Street: Lakshmi Eyre

Quotes 

• [Lewis and Hathaway are questioning friends of a murder victim] 

  Lakshmi Eyre : Look, do you know how long we're going to have to hang on here? I've work to get back to.

  DS Hathaway : On a weekend?

  Lakshmi Eyre : [grinning]  I'm CEO of Guilty Secrets.

  DS Hathaway : What's Guilty Secrets?

  DI Robert Lewis : It's a lingerie chain. Sergeant Hathaway doesn't get out much.

  [Lakshmi gives Hathaway a seductive look] 

  DI Robert Lewis : [after leaving Lakshmi, Lewis and Hathaway walk across the quad] 

  DS Hathaway : Regular customer, are you, Sir, at Guilty Secrets? Loyalty card holder?

  DI Robert Lewis : Every high street's got one - it's a major chain. Online and what-have-you.

  DS Hathaway : Online? Well.

  DI Robert Lewis : Just because I've heard of something you've not.

  DS Hathaway : My mind is on a higher plane.

• Lakshmi Eyre : Outside of her cutting letters and the perennial round robin, I really didn't see or hear anything of Poppy after Uni. We were very different people.

  DS James Hathaway : In what way?

  Lakshmi Eyre : I made a success of my life.