Inspector Lewis (TV Series)
The Gift of Promise (2011)
Laurence Fox: DS James Hathaway
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Quotes
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DI Robert Lewis : Were you really talent-spotted?
DS James Hathaway : What, by MI5? They even got me to sign something... I changed my mind.
DI Robert Lewis : How'd you get away with it?
DS James Hathaway : I used invisible ink.
[as they walk to their cars]
DS James Hathaway : Drink, sir?
DI Robert Lewis : Mine's a pint... shaken, not stirred.
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DI Robert Lewis : Why would anyone poison Voss?
[tutor who had recently moved to Oxford from Harvard]
DS James Hathaway : There's nothing in his background. He's British, originally.
DI Robert Lewis : Where from?
DS James Hathaway : Swindon.
DI Robert Lewis : Went there once; it was closed.
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Zoe Suskin : It can get lonely. Is that why you're a policeman? Because you're frightened by your own cleverness and of being lonely?
DS James Hathaway : I was never as clever as you.
Zoe Suskin : You were, I can tell.
DS James Hathaway : What makes you think you don't have to be clever to be a policeman?
Zoe Suskin : Sorry.
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DS James Hathaway : [Looking at a poster for a book-signing event of a best-seller] Would you ever write your memoirs?
DI Robert Lewis : Only if I could write the shocking truth about you.
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DS James Hathaway : [Hathaway, the Cambridge graduate, holds an Oxford student's essay] You know sometimes you couldn't believe that this was England's second best university.
DI Robert Lewis : You're speaking objectively, of course.
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DS James Hathaway : Will he live?
Doctor : I'm not God.
DS James Hathaway : No, I'm aware of that, doctor, but any port in a storm. Try.
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DI Robert Lewis : [referring to Hathaway's food poisoning] In any case, we don't know for sure that it was the coffee that gave you the funny turn, rather than the prawns.
DS James Hathaway : It was DEFinitely the coffee.
DI Robert Lewis : Gut feeling?
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DI Robert Lewis : [reading aloud as they walk] Gifted children use long words, enjoy problem solving, are very sensitive emotionally, and often prone to deny the obvious.
[to Hathaway]
DI Robert Lewis : Remind you of anyone?
DS James Hathaway : [sharing Lewis's enjoyment] No.
DI Robert Lewis : I made the last bit up.
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DS James Hathaway : Don't grow up angry, Zoe. It takes so much effort to find your place in the world when you're angry, believe me.
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DS James Hathaway : You've already told us that you were here, alone, working at the time she was killed.
Leon Suskin : Are you in a position to contradict that?
DS James Hathaway : Are you in a position to confirm it?
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Eileen Norman : Poison is a woman's weapon.
DI Robert Lewis : Is it?
Eileen Norman : "I love the old ways best, the simple way of poison, where we too are as strong as men".
DS James Hathaway : Uh, one of the Greek tragedies.
Eileen Norman : Right: Medea. I played her once at drama school. Look at me now.
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DS James Hathaway : Just sometimes, James, do you ever think you could be too clever for your own good? You jumped down my throat when I mentioned Zoe Suskin.
DI Robert Lewis : Well, it was pure speculation.
DS James Hathaway : It's a detective's job to speculate. Just because Zoe Suskin is nearly as clever as you is no reason to rule her out of anything.