Dickensian (TV Series)

Episode #1.2 (2015)

Stephen Rea: Inspector Bucket

Quotes 

• Bucket (2015) : If I might say so, Mr Scrooge, you don't seem overly troubled by the sudden and somewhat tragic loss of your partner.

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : And if you make it your mission to seek out someone to shed a tear for Jacob Marley, I fear you will be sorely disappointed.

  Bucket (2015) : He wasn't well liked?

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : He was a moneylender. We're liked enough at the start of the arrangement; despised at the end of it. Your problem, Inspector, will not be discovering who hated Jacob Marley enough to kill him, but rather finding someone who didn't.

• Bucket (2015) : [Scrooge angrily opens his front door]  Mr Scrooge?

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : If you are about to sing, sir, I shall fetch a bucket of water as I would for a cat! If it is charity you seek, then you should know that a portion of my income is already set aside for the poor in the form of taxes to subsidise the workhouses and treadmills. And if you are simply disturbing me to offer me greetings of the season, then I say, "Humbug, sir!"

  Bucket (2015) : I'm here neither to sing nor collect for charity and although it's not my primary purpose for calling, I do indeed offer you greetings of the season.

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : Then state your purpose.

  Bucket (2015) : Murder, Mr Scrooge. I am Inspector Bucket of the Detective and I'm here to talk of the murder of your partner, Mr Jacob Marley.