Inspector Lewis (TV Series)
The Gift of Promise (2011)
Kevin Whately: DI Robert Lewis
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Quotes
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DI Robert Lewis : [Quoting the title of a book] "The Gifted Child."
Dr. Laura Hobson : [Sarcastically] Don't speak about Sergeant Hathaway like that. You'll give him a big head.
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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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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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[Lewis and Hobson are examining a woman's body]
DI Robert Lewis : I presume the bleach is to get rid of the DNA?
Dr. Laura Hobson : You're learning. You used to think "DNA" meant "Don't Know Anything".
DI Robert Lewis : Better than thinking "CID" stands for "Coppers In Disguise".
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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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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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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.