Midsomer Murders (TV Series)

Dark Autumn (2001)

John Nettles: DCI Tom Barnaby

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Quotes 

• Owen August : [resentful of questions]  Look, whatever you think, this is my personal business you're prying into.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Your wife had affairs with two men. These two men are now dead, so what do you expect us to think?

• DCI Tom Barnaby : [asking about his hill walking]  Sure you don't come home after setting out, hide yourself away somewhere, and pretend you've been out on a walk?

  Owen August : Why would I do that?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Do you ever come home early?

  Owen August : [taking offense]  Now, look...

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Not even on the odd occasion?

  Owen August : No, any wa...

  Owen August : [his eyes drop with embarrassment, he bites his lip, and laughs to himself ironically]  I only return early when my wife is 'entertaining.'... I... like... to listen. She knows I like to listen... Is that a crime?

• Barbara Judd : I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but Dave Cutler wasn't exactly what you would call an honorable man. Far from it.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : How do you mean?

  Barbara Judd : Well, he liked women a bit too much.

  John Field : Other people's women, mostly.

  Barbara Judd : Yes.

  John Field : Marriage didn't mean a lot to him.

• DCI Tom Barnaby : Why does everyone in this village seem to be "at it?"

• Ben Barrow : Finished the investigations of yours yet, have you?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Not yet. No.

  Ade Jessell : Well, my advice to you is to pack up and go home.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Why?

  Ade Jessell : Because justice has been done, that's why. That randy bastard got what he deserved.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Did she also get what she deserved?

• [last lines] 

  DCI Tom Barnaby : What's that?

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : I suppose I may as well dump it.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : What is it?

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : It was that present I bought for Jay.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Oh.

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : She didn't want it. I don't think she's over her last relationship.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Lord Byron, Selected Poems.

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : Yeah, she had this tatty old book in her house. Thought I'd buy her a new one. She marked that page in particular. Must be her favorite.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : [reads from the page]  "So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night. But the heart be still and loving and the moon be still as bright."

• Janet Reason : This place pays because I got it right. Unlike dear old Simon. I mean, living in that rundown showroom, for God's sake.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : He said that he left you. Is that right?

  Janet Reason : [laughs]  No, he'd say anything to save face. I own the house. I threw him out.

• DCI Tom Barnaby : Why do all the pubs these days have such lousy music?

• DCI Tom Barnaby : [last lines]  "So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night. But the heart be still as loving and the moon be still as bright.

• Sgt. Gavin Troy : I didn't know you could play this game, sir.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : You never asked.

• Sgt. Gavin Troy : I'd say his taste in music was '80s soul.

  [looks around] 

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : That's not exactly what I expected.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : What did you expect, Troy?

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : I don't know - I thought there'd be girlie pictures, dirty books, crate of condoms.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Don't think he needed pictures or books.

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : What exactly are we looking for, sir?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : A diary would be nice, if he kept one.

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : I'all take a look in the living room.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Yeah.

• DCI Tom Barnaby : And we'll need an incident room.

  Sgt. Gavin Troy : I'll get the unit out, sir.

  WPC Jay Nash : May I make a suggestion, sir?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Please.

  WPC Jay Nash : I know this village and a mobile incident room is not going to work here.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Why?

  WPC Jay Nash : People with things to say won't come near it. They don't even trust the local library.