Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (TV Series)
Cocaine Blues (2012)
Essie Davis: Phryne Fisher
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Quotes
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Dorothy 'Dot' Williams : Miss, about the job. I don't know what my priest will think of your... guns and knives and... dancing.
Phryne Fisher : Considering your last employers were a drug baroness and a rapist, surely he'd find me a modest improvement.
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Detective John 'Jack' Robinson : I wish I could change the laws for you, Miss Fisher.
Phryne Fisher : You can't? Fine. I'll just have to find a way around them.
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Phryne Fisher : Do you have a card? In case I need to call the police, because... I'm a woman alone, newly arrived in a dangerous town.
Detective John 'Jack' Robinson : I plan to make this town less dangerous, Miss FIsher.
Phryne Fisher : Good. I do like a man with a plan,
[reading card]
Phryne Fisher : Detective Inspector Jack Robinson.
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Phryne Fisher : Goodnight, Aunt Prudence.
Aunt Prudence : At this hour? It's not safe! Why do you think you can just run off on your own?
Phryne Fisher : Because I'm carrying a gun!
[holds up her golden revolver]
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Aunt Prudence : I do appreciate you weren't born to wealth. At least your mother came from good stock. It's just unfortunate she ran off with your father.
Phryne Fisher : Lucky, then, the Great War laid waste to his titled cousins.
Aunt Prudence : Yes. Well, no one likes a war.
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Cec : Is that all I can do for you?
Phryne Fisher : You might go for help. Things can get interesting around here.
Cec : Thought they already were.
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Dr. Mac : Looks like a nerve powder, usually prescribed for women, of course, for hysterical sex, for nervous exhaustion, emotional collapse, wandering wombs, that sort of thing...
Phryne Fisher : Why on earth would a womb wander?
Dr. Mac : Unnatural behavior would do it, according to Hippocrates. Like celibacy.
Phryne Fisher : Oh, good. Mine's not going anywhere.