Inspector George Gently (TV Series)

Gently with Class (2012)

Lee Ingleby: John Bacchus

Quotes 

• [Gently and Bacchus have already met Lord Blackstone who has said "just call me Hector". Now they are questioning Lady Blackstone] 

  John Bacchus : We found your husband's car, Mrs Blackstone.

  Alethea Blackstone : [superciliously]  I beg your pardon?

  John Bacchus : You hard of hearing?

  Hector Blackstone : My wife prefers to be "Your Ladyship".

  John Bacchus : [flippantly]  Well I wouldn't mind being Bobby Charlton.

• John Bacchus : You still think you should be runnin' the country, don't ya?

  Alethea Blackstone : You know, when I first met you, I took you as one of those angry young men with a... with a chip on his shoulder, but now I see you're actually quite well-balanced. You have a chip on both your shoulders.

• [after a drunken night, Bacchus has spent the night with an unknown older woman] 

  John Bacchus : I woke up with a complete stranger next to us this morning.

  George Gently : [ironically]  Some men pay money for that.

  John Bacchus : Should have seen the state of her. It's like waking up next to somebody's grandma.

• [Gently and Bacchus are going to interview Lord Blackstone. They have driven through the main gate and still haven't reached the house] 

  John Bacchus : Are we nearly there? I mean, how much of England is one bloke allowed to own?

• [Lady Blackstone has claimed that her son James was playing backgammon with her the night that their car was involved in a fatal accident, but Lord Blackstone has since said that James was at the pub with him] 

  John Bacchus : [sarcastically]  That's a nasty cut you've got there, Your Highness. Did you get that playing backgammon?

• John Bacchus : How many times have these people got a free pass just because they won the pools on the day they were born?

  George Gently : Is that what you think of me... somebody who knows his place?

  John Bacchus : These people have been farting in our faces for centuries, and now we don't have to take it anymore... and here is my guv'nor callin' this stuck-up cow, "Your Ladyship."

• [last lines] 

  George Gently : Just out of interest, what sort of people do you think should be runnin' this country?

  John Bacchus : People like me.