Quotes
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DI Fred Thursday : Funny, it will be twenty-eight years tomorrow since I joined the job. Twenty-eight years to the day, except in the war, of course. All this with the merger put me out of sorts, got me thinking less ahead than behind. I forgot for a minute, it's not about me. It's about them who turn to us for help in time of need: weak, defenseless, old young - especially the young.
DC Endeavour Morse : Does that mean you've reconsidered?
DI Fred Thursday : Win would never put up with me under her feet all day. Nah, I was born a copper... and I'll die one I expect.
DC Endeavour Morse : Ensanguining the skies, how heavily it dies, into the West, away, past touch and sight and sound, not further to be found. How hopeless underground, falls the remorseful day.
DI Fred Thursday : You know there's no cavalry coming, still time. I won't think the less.
DC Endeavour Morse : [Shakes head]
DI Fred Thursday : Till the end then?
DC Endeavour Morse : Till the end.
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DI Fred Thursday : [sarcastically, to the disliked DI Chard] Did you want anything in particular, Hugh, or did you just drop by to admire the furnishings?
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PC Jim Strange : [revealing that DI Chard is likely to get promoted over Thursday] Oh, the old man won't like that - answering to the likes of Chard!
[he realizes that Thursday is behind him]
DI Fred Thursday : Loose lips, constable. And less of the "old", if you don't mind.
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DI Fred Thursday : [sarcastically, to Chard] What's brought you above ground? Didn't think the night watch could venture out in daylight.
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DI Bart Church : [pressed by Thursday for information] I don't know, Fred. Some things in our game... "Sleeping dogs"...
DI Fred Thursday : What does that mean?
DI Bart Church : It means I'm taking a risk even talking to you.
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DI Fred Thursday : [pointing his pistol at a shadowy intruder in Blenheim Vale, he realizes it's Morse] That could have been nasty.
DC Endeavour Morse : Sir - it's a set-up!
DI Fred Thursday : [indicating his gun] I figured as much. I don't usually carry this for a friendly chat.
DC Endeavour Morse : But you came anyway.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [alarmed about the extent of the conspiracy] Deare said it went deeper and wider than we knew. What if it goes higher, too?
DI Fred Thursday : [laconic] Then you'd better mind how you go.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : [discussing the amalgamation] Brave new world, Thursday.
DI Fred Thursday : Sir?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : This Thames Valley business. I was talking to Chief Constable Standish at the Widows and Orphans. Division has been very impressed with my paper on the amalgamation.
DI Fred Thursday : The one Morse wrote up, sir?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : [prickly] Typed, I think you'll find, from my prepared notes.
DI Fred Thursday : [conciliatory] Of course, sir. A figure of speech.
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DI Fred Thursday : I'm a proper copper or I'm nothing, sir!
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DI Fred Thursday : Bad apples, Morse. Every barrel's got 'em.
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DI Fred Thursday : [warning Morse] You'll be all right as long as I'm here, but when it comes to "vindictive", DI Chard's in a league of his own!
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : The job takes its toll, Thursday. Only so many years of active service in any of us.
DI Fred Thursday : I'm good for a while yet.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : I'd hope so too. But one can't fight the natural way of things. The old order changeth. Younger, fitter men come along. And wisdom and experience can be put to use in other ways.
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DI Fred Thursday : I wouldn't trust anyone in this nick further than I could spit!
