Dickensian (TV Series)

Episode #1.5 (2016)

Stephen Rea: Inspector Bucket

Quotes 

• [Inspector Bucket lies face down as Mr Venus manipulates his bad back] 

  Inspector Bucket : Animals don't lie, I suppose?

  Mr. Venus : Oh, they do. Consider the jaguar: how it crouches in the tree like a blameless shadow among the branches. But he is death and he is remorseless. Oh, they lie to avoid detection; pretend they are powerful when they are weak as an unshelled chick.

  Inspector Bucket : You know what doesn't lie? Money. And I have the books. I have 'em and I will follow the money to Marley's killer. He is hiding in those pages, but I am the trap, the poison, the gun and the gaff. I am Bucket of the Detective and I will have my man!

  Mr. Venus : Breathe out!

  [Mr Venus swiftly administers his final treatment and Bucket cries in pain] 

• [first lines] 

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : [passing in the street]  Arrested any more innocents lately, Mr. Bucket?

  Inspector Bucket : I shall see justice done, Mr. Scrooge, if I have to arrest every last man in London.

  Ebeneezer Scrooge : Humbug...