Quotes
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DC Endeavour Morse : How'd you find me?
DI Fred Thursday : It's my lung's got a hole in it, not my brain.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [undecided about returning to the police] Why would you go back - after everything?
DI Fred Thursday : There's a town needs looking to. That hasn't changed just because I've dropped a suit-size. Throw the towel in now and it was all for nothing and the bastards won.
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DC Endeavour Morse : Bixby didn't belong in their world any more than I do. Did. I wanted to tell him that the last night I saw him. That he was better than that.
DI Fred Thursday : Nobody gets to choose. The further a man runs away from his nature, the sooner it'll find him out.
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DI Fred Thursday : [asked about Harry Rose's criminal connections] Slots. Drugs. Racketeering. You name it. Harry Rose has been at it since the Devil was in short trousers.
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DI Fred Thursday : Sometimes you've to put all you are against all they've got. It was my decision. I'd do it again without a second thought.
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DI Fred Thursday : You didn't call me out here because she'd been hit by a car.
Dr. Max DeBryn : No I called you out because she was hit by the same car... several times.
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DC Endeavour Morse : I thought... It doesn't matter how far you run, or how hard you scrub. It's there. The stench of it. Everything we touch.
DI Fred Thursday : It gets so you don't notice.
DC Endeavour Morse : That's what worries me.
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DI Fred Thursday : [asking Monica about Morse] Any message if I find him? I'll leave you to get on, miss.
Monica Hicks : Mr. Thursday - he doesn't want to be found.
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DI Fred Thursday : We broke them. The worst are gone. What's left, scattered to the four winds.
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DS Peter Jakes : [after interviewing Potter about Jeannie Hearne's night out at the fair] They went out on a few rides. Took in a magic show. Shooting gallery. Potter says he won her a monkey.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : [misunderstanding] Five hundred pounds?
DI Fred Thursday : Stuffed, sir.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : What?
DI Fred Thursday : Soft toy.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : [realizing his mistake] Ah.
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DI Fred Thursday : [referring to Morse] Have you seen him?
DS Peter Jakes : Not since he got out.
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Dr. Max DeBryn : [discussing the death of a student with Thursday] Blood results on your "sudden" - undergrad, Gerald Ashborne. Chinese heroin, number three variety. New for these parts and rather worrying.
DI Fred Thursday : How's that?
Dr. Max DeBryn : This Chinese stuff varies in strength enormously. Results are somewhat hit, and in the case of the late Gerald Ashborne, a rather resounding miss.
DI Fred Thursday : Right. Thank you, doctor.
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Joss Bixby : Well unless there's anything else, Inspector... It's a poor host neglects his guests.
DI Fred Thursday : Sir.