Ripper Street (TV Series)

The Weight of One Man's Heart (2013)

Jerome Flynn: Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake

Quotes 

• Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : You see, I, I'm, you know I'm not a rich man. But what I cannot offer you in wealth and luxury, I, Miss Rose, I offer you my whole heart, for always. For when I look upon you, I feel a mercy I thought lost to me. And I would work as hard as any man is able and harder to provide every day for your happiness and to be a better man, if you would, that is to say if, if you might consider doing me the utmost honor of being at my side.

• Madoc Faulkner : Do it.

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : I cannot, Colonel.

  Madoc Faulkner : An order, Sergeant!

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : I am not your Sergeant anymore.

• Cpt. Homer Jackson : Look, Drake, I know that we've had our differences, but I know I've been thinking, and, well, whatta yuh we bury the hatchet, huh? Because from where I'm standin' me and you seem like two fellas with plenty in common.

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : We have nothing in common.

  Cpt. Homer Jackson : Men who walk through the fire never shed the heat, Sergeant. They see in each other the burns that other people don't.

• Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : [inquiring why Drake wants a raise]  Bennet, may I ask, does this request come from Rose?

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : [after Drake is silent]  Your interest in the girl hasn't escaped me.

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : I, uh... I don't think I take your meanin'.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Heh, Bennet...

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : [He chuckles]  A bobtail like that will look you deep in the eye only so long as she's deep in your pocket.

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : No, she's not... You don't know her.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : All my yeas of policing I have known her kind plenty as have you. I am - I am simply saying... beware the kitten's claws.