DCI Banks (TV Series)

Dry Bones That Dream: Part 1 (2012)

Stephen Tompkinson: DCI Alan Banks

Quotes 

• [It is early morning. Banks has just arrived at the scene of a brutal murder. Morton and the SOCOs are already there] 

  DI Helen Morton : You'll want overshoes, DCI Banks. It's like an abattoir in there. I have frontal lobe in my instep.

  DCI Banks : As greetings go, DI Morton, I've had warmer.

  DI Helen Morton : Morning.

  DCI Banks : [ironically]  I'm thinking of starting a campaign. Anyone convicted of a serious crime committed during anti-social hours automatically gets another five years added on to their sentence. I'm sure your husband would agree.

• [At a murder scene, a SOCO has found a piece of the page of a magazine used as makeshift wadding in a shotgun cartridge. Banks and Morton are examining it under a magnifying glass] 

  DCI Banks : Is that a...

  SOCO : I think it is.

  DCI Banks : And that could be a...

  DI Helen Morton : Penis. First time I've seen one through a magnifying glass! You?

  DCI Banks : I'm more interested in the sub machine-gun standing next to it.