Quotes
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DC Endeavour Morse : [interviewing Dowsable Chattox about the long-missing Dr. Laxman] So why did he end up with a Tarot card in his pocket?
Dowsable Chattox : I did a reading for him. And he took it.
DC Endeavour Morse : That doesn't seem a particularly nice thing to do.
Dowsable Chattox : He wasn't nice.
DC Endeavour Morse : So - what? - he just did it out of mischief?
Dowsable Chattox : More spite. Perhaps he didn't like what the cards had to say. Maybe he spoiled the pack because he thought he could change his future.
DC Endeavour Morse : Why? What did the cards predict?
Dowsable Chattox : That a woman would bring him to ruin.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [finding Dowsable Chattox's cottage door unlocked and going in] Hello? Miss Chattox? Hello? Hello? My name's...
[he suddenly realizes that Dowsable, whom he has never met before, has appeared , holding a double-barrelled rifle on him]
Dowsable Chattox : Morse. That's your name, isn't it? Morse. I been expecting you.
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Dowsable Chattox : Better to die under an open sky than in prison. Some men aren't born for walls.
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Dowsable Chattox : There are things in the world older than we know. We come and go, but the land endures.
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Dowsable Chattox : You are going on a journey. Death waits at the end of it. But not for you.
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Dowsable Chattox : [to Seth] You want to keep away from the Bergers - him and her both. There's nothing up there for the likes of us. Hear me?
