Marple (TV Series)

The Murder at the Vicarage (2004)

Tim McInnerny: Rev. Leonard Clement

Quotes 

• Rev Leonard Clement : I could strangle Protheroe sometimes. May God forgive me.

  Griselda Clement : I'd stab him.

  Currate Ronald Hawes : I'd poison him.

  Dennis Clement : I'd shoot him.

  Lawrence Redding : Use my gun.

• DI Slack : The lady in the cottage with a view of the back here.

  Rev Leonard Clement : Miss Marple?

  DI Slack : I need to interview her. Would you tag along? These old maids tend to get nervous.

• Griselda Clement : [Walks in on Leonard looking rather tearfully at Lawrence's portrait of her]  Shame, he was on his way to getting me, don't you think?

  Rev Leonard Clement : [Choked up]  Was he?

  Griselda Clement : ...oh, you silly man! Yes he's charming, yes he's like a breath of fresh air in the village, yes I was flattered but... no! You are my husband, Len. I would never deceive you.

  [Kisses him] 

  Griselda Clement : ... Unless it was for the best.

• Rev Leonard Clement : [discussing Redding]  He'd been painting Lettuce in a bathing suit.

  DI Slack : Oh,

  [not realizing that Lettuce was a nickname for someone] 

  DI Slack : How... Avant Garde.