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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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DC Endeavour Morse : [confronting Strange with the conflict between his Masonic connections and his duty as a policeman] I told you one day you'd have to choose. Today's that day.
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[last lines]
DI Gregson : DC Morse?
DC Endeavour Morse : Yes?
DI Gregson : My name is Detective Inspector Gregson of Kidlington CID. Endeavour Morse, I am arresting you for the murder of Chief Constable Rupert Standish.
DC Endeavour Morse : You're arresting me!
DI Gregson : You do not have to say anything...
DC Endeavour Morse : You're...
DI Gregson : But anything you say will be taken down...
DC Endeavour Morse : You've made a mistake.
DI Gregson : and can be used in evidence.
DC Endeavour Morse : Some kind of a mistake.
DI Gregson : Take him inside.
DC Endeavour Morse : [as he is marched away] Get your hands off me. You've made a mistake. Take your hands off me. I'm innocent. I can't go; the boy's here.
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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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DC Endeavour Morse : Mr Landesman?
Josiah Landesman : Detective Constable...
DC Endeavour Morse : Morse.
Josiah Landesman : Do you know Chief Constable Standish, I take it? And Detective Inspector Chard?
Chief Constable Rupert Standish : Detective Constable, what's this about?
DC Endeavour Morse : It's pursuant to an enquiry into the murder of George Aldridge, sir. He's the escapee from Farnleigh Open Prison. Did you know him, Mr Landesman?
Josiah Landesman : I'm afraid, as a rule, I don't seek the society of habitual criminals. Present company...
[laughter]
DC Endeavour Morse : He was at Blenheim Vale in the late '40s, early '50s.
Josiah Landesman : Constable, I buy, sell and develop properties. Profit and loss. That's as far as my interest extends. The history of a place? Who lived there? I'm afraid that's... that's none of my business.
Chief Constable Rupert Standish : Unless there was anything else you wanted to ask, Constable?
DC Endeavour Morse : No, Chief Constable Standish, DI Chard. That was all, sir. I'm sorry to have interrupted your game.
Alderman Gerald Wintergreen : Do I detect a note of rebuke? You want to watch that, Rupe.
Chief Constable Rupert Standish : Come on, Gerry. He's only doing his job.
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Joan Thursday : New scarf?
[Morse looks at her unsure of what she's said]
Joan Thursday : Scarf, new?
DC Endeavour Morse : Yes.
Joan Thursday : Where's that from then?
DC Endeavour Morse : Burridges by the label.
Joan Thursday : You're very literal.
DC Endeavour Morse : It's a failing.