Photos
Quotes
-
DC Endeavour Morse : [angered by Frobisher's patronizing evasiveness] Condescend to me, Master, and I'll frog-march you across that quad, down the High and into Cowley Police Station - in handcuffs!
-
DI Fred Thursday : [after Morse's unexpected return to Oxford has saved the day] I put you on a train.
DC Endeavour Morse : I got off.
-
Joan Thursday : [after her disastrous date with Peter Jakes] I thought I'd be all right with a copper.
DC Endeavour Morse : Well, there are coppers and there are coppers.
Joan Thursday : What sort are you?
DC Endeavour Morse : The kind that sees young ladies safely home.
-
DC Endeavour Morse : Why?
DI Fred Thursday : Because Y's not a Zed.
-
DC Endeavour Morse : [asked if his return to Oxford has to do with his unhappy love affair of years earlier] I've many faults, God knows, but I try to draw the line at masochism. Besides, it's the killer that returns to the scene of the crime, not the... whatever I was.
-
[in the pub, Jakes carries three glasses of beer to the table: two pints of bitter for Morse and Thursday and a pint of lighter beer for himself]
DI Fred Thursday : [to Jakes] What's that, then? *Lager* beer, is it?
[Jakes echoes the advertising slogan]
DS Peter Jakes : Double Diamond. Works wonders.
DC Endeavour Morse : [dryly] The wonder is anyone buys the stuff.
-
Cyril Morse : [on his deathbed] Police, still?
DC Endeavour Morse : Yes.
Cyril Morse : [after a long pause] I never liked the police.
-
Joyce Morse : [after Morse has bought drinks for them both] I thought you'd taken the pledge.
DC Endeavour Morse : Fell among thieves.
-
DC Endeavour Morse : [surprised when his half-sister kisses him goodbye] Since when do we do that?
Joyce Morse : You looked like you could do with it.
-
DI Fred Thursday : Good man, Albert. Reliable.
DC Endeavour Morse : At ten bob a time. I expect he is.
DI Fred Thursday : Any copper's only as good as the intelligence he's got coming in. What do they teach you at Carshall?
DC Endeavour Morse : I don't remember anything in Judges' Rules about paying for information.
DI Fred Thursday : Got something new to think about, then, haven't you?
-
Dr. Max DeBryn : [about the corpse of Alistair Coke-Norris] No-one come forward to claim him?
DC Endeavour Morse : Not yet.
Dr. Max DeBryn : I've bagged his personal effects, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.Just the usual - specs, smoker's bits and bobs, keys, wallet. Somebody saw the accident, did they?
DC Endeavour Morse : No. Why?
Dr. Max DeBryn : Case like this, I'd normally expect to find some injury to the lower limbs. Point of impact- where the body's come into contact with the vehicle. Outside of the head injury, there's not a mark on him. Could have been a glancing blow, I suppose. Tossed him into the air, and the kerb's done the rest.
