Midsomer Murders (TV Series)

Things That Go Bump in the Night (2004)

John Nettles: DCI Tom Barnaby

Quotes 

• Barnaby : I'm not 100% certain about your interview technique, Scott. But it certainly gets results.

  Scott : Thank you, sir.

  Barnaby : That's something you picked up at the Met, is it?

  Scott : Could be.

  Barnaby : Do you want to go back there?

  Scott : No. I quite like it here.

  Barnaby : Good.

  Scott : Yeah. I think I might change my job, though.

  Barnaby : Hmmm?

  Scott : Well, there's a shortage of funeral directors in the area. I could make a fortune.

• Dr Bullard : I have some cheerful news for you.

  Barnaby : Oh, you've chosen the right place for it.

  Dr Bullard : He didn't kill himself.

  Barnaby : Didn't kill himself?

  Dr Bullard : Unless he managed to come back from the dead and hide the knife that was used to slash his wrists. I also think he was struck from behind by something fairly heavy.

• Barnaby : So what kind of person are we looking for?

  Dr Bullard : Don't know yet. But here's s bit of a puzzle. In our game nothing surprises us anymore, right, Tom?

  Barnaby : Yes. Yes.

  Dr Bullard : I would have thought that would have applied to undertakers as well. But this fellow was given a hell of a shock before he died. Do you reckon he saw a ghost?

• Barnaby : Obviously our Mr. Pennyman upset someone in particular.

  Scott : Yeah, I'd say so, sir.

  Barnaby : Dissatisfied customer?

  Scott : By the sounds of things, there must have been a few of them.

  Barnaby : Well, they know they were being cheated. He was an undertaker, not a grocer.

• Barnaby : Mr. Whittle, what can you tell us about James Griss?

  John Whittle : Not a lot. Don't see much of him these days. Hoo. Pennyman and Griss, that was a partnership made in hell. James in trouble?

  Barnaby : Why should he be?

  John Whittle : Because he had a short fuse, that's why.