Ripper Street (TV Series)

The Good of This City (2013)

David Dawson: Fred Best

Quotes 

• Fred Best : Fred Best tells you he needs something shown in return.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : You do as I ask, I will give to you a story that, though you connive and bribe your way to the Devil himself, it will not be bettered.

  Fred Best : [smiles]  Go on.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : "How Stanley Bone, secret slumlord, is exposed by the actions of a whore-runner." Corruption and sex, Mr. Best. Surely it does not come more honeyed than that!

• Fred Best : As you know, Inspector, he was one of the first raised up in January by our new council. Now, in March, he and his friends agree that the Dockhead slum in Southwark make way for the S&C Railway and its very first tunnel.

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : The Dockhead was also owned and collected by the Stickleton Trust?

  Fred Best : It was.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Thus, Mr. Bone recommends the compulsory purchase of his own slum.

  Fred Best : Mm-hmm, and profits tidily.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Mr. Best, the last I saw you, you made heavy weather of matters that relate more closely to Mr. Bone's personal status.

  Fred Best : I did, it is true.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Elaborate, if you please.

  Fred Best : Mr. Bone is a man who came to ambition late. His youth was not a happy one, beset with fits.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : He's epileptic?

  Fred Best : Was. He eventually found the cure.