Ripper Street (TV Series)
I Need Light (2012)
Matthew Macfadyen: Det. Insp. Edmund Reid
Quotes
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Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : [Speaking to Best and Chief Inspector Abberline] She was never Ripper, that girl. But you two...
[to Best]
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : You for profit...
[to Abberline]
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : You for guilt, I suspect, wanted it so. Now I ask us to undertake this. That we find a little joy in his continued absence, that we cease to look for him in every act of evil that crosses our path. There is an abundance of that hereabout and I would have obsession blinker us to the wider world no longer. Am I understood?
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Chief Inspector Fred Abberline : Edmund, this last year, that lunatic will ever bind me to you but you ask too much. He lives still, he breathes this air still. These streets demand your vigilance.
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : No. We did everything in our power, used every instrument allowed to us, some that were not. All that we can hope for now is that he is gone and stays gone. He will own my life no more.
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Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : We only have these pictures, we have no name.
Chief Inspector Fred Abberline : [takes one of the pictures] His name is Sir Arthur Donaldson.
[the police scramble outside]
Chief Inspector Fred Abberline : Summer '86. Before your time here. He got his cock out at a church picnic in Victoria Park. Week or so later, he tore the blouse off a pregnant woman on the Stepney Omnibus. We charged him, but... man from such a family as like to do jug as Victoria herself. The address is all we ever had for him.
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : Thank you, Fred.
Chief Inspector Fred Abberline : Go.
[Reid hastens to join his men]
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[Reid brings Jackson to a dead body in a jail cell]
Captain Homer Jackson : Is it him?
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : That's what you're here to find out.
Captain Homer Jackson : Your sudden passion for the furtive?
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : I must be sure before that hell rises again.
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[regarding a motion picture camera that has been used to take snuff films]
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : Whatever happens, whatever punishment is judged fit for all this, that... is extraordinary.