Midsomer Murders (TV Series)
Dead in the Water (2004)
John Hopkins: Sergeant Dan Scott
Quotes
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[Barnaby joins Scott in the surveillance post]
Sergeant Dan Scott : Why are you here sir?
DCI Tom Barnaby : It's a generational thing, Scott. I've brought you some cake... and some coffee.
Sergeant Dan Scott : Oh.
DCI Tom Barnaby : I thought you might have grown a tad peckish.
Sergeant Dan Scott : Thank you sir. I'm going to try and eat it before the relief turns up.
[begins to eat]
Sergeant Dan Scott : Did Mrs. Barnaby make this?
DCI Tom Barnaby : [in a grave tone] Oh, I wouldn't do that to you, Scott.
[Scott chuckles, and takes a big bite of cake]
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[DCI Tom Barnaby and Sergeant Dan Scott are stopped by a riverbank]
DCI Tom Barnaby : How do we get across, Sergeant?
Sergeant Dan Scott : Well, one of us is going to have to row, sir.
[under his breath]
Sergeant Dan Scott : And the smart money's on me.
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[DCI Tom Barnaby and Sergeant Dan Scott set up a surveillance post in the Stevens' house]
Mr Stevens : So, what's the form?
Sergeant Dan Scott : Uh, well there'll be someone here, round the clock, starting this evening.
DCI Tom Barnaby : I expect Sergeant Scott'll want to take the first watch.
Sergeant Dan Scott : [dejectedly] Oh yes. Of course...
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[Barnaby and Scott are in Barnaby's Rover 75]
Sergeant Dan Scott : Where are we going sir?
DCI Tom Barnaby : To see Mr. Cooke with an "e".
Sergeant Dan Scott : Oh, good!
[cracks his knuckles]
Sergeant Dan Scott : [Barnaby takes notice of what Scott has done, and pulls the car off the main road]
Sergeant Dan Scott : What's wrong?
[Barnaby stops the car, and sets the parking brake with authority]
DCI Tom Barnaby : [speaks in a low, serious tone] Scott, there will be no violence on my watch.
Sergeant Dan Scott : No, I was just, um...
DCI Tom Barnaby : [cutting Scott off] None whatsoever.
Sergeant Dan Scott : Yes sir.
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Sergeant Dan Scott : What about the press?
DCI Tom Barnaby : Press? Avoid them.
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DCI Tom Barnaby : Get a team to Morton Shallows. Search the whole length of the village. If there's any signs of struggle along the riverside, people who saw anything, the murder weapon...
Sergeant Dan Scott : I do know the drill, sir.
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Sergeant Dan Scott : I never trust a man with a tidy desk.
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Sergeant Dan Scott : Hettie Trent is also one of Guy Sweetman's, um, what's the posh word? Conquests?
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Sergeant Dan Scott : Did your daughter have a thing with him?
Philip Trent : Hettie? Why do you say that?
Sergeant Dan Scott : Well, my boss out there would call it copper's nose. Old-fashioned, you see. I can't help it. Anyway, did she?
Philip Trent : Well, yeah, I think there was some sort of - yeah.
Sergeant Dan Scott : There you go then.