- [Alice brings in a vase of flowers]
- Johnny Broom: Morning, Alice. How lovely you look today.
- Alice Vexin: Thank you, Johnny.
- Henry Broom: For Her Highness?
- Alice Vexin: For your wife.
- Henry Broom: Nora can't abide cut flowers.
- Johnny Broom: Or they her. Blooms wither at her passing. They say a scorpion stung her once... and died.
- Nora Broom: I do hope there are sandwiches. There's only so much obsequious insincerity I can take on an empty stomach.
- Chief Superintendent Bright: [satisfied] Her Royal Highness put everyone quite at their ease. A marvellous quality, don't you think?
- DI Fred Thursday: [interested] She spoke to you then, sir?
- Chief Superintendent Bright: [delighted] Oh yes. Protocol dictates of course that one has to wait for Her Royal Highness to speak to one first, of course.
- [telephone rings]
- DS Peter Jakes: Morse, phone.
- [Morse goes to answer the phone]
- Chief Superintendent Bright: [satisfied] "Have you come far?" she said. Just like that. Regular, familiar as you please. "Have you come far?"
- DC Endeavour Morse: [answering the phone] CID. Morse.
- Chief Superintendent Bright: [repeating what Her Royal Highness said] "Have you come far?"
- DI Fred Thursday: [interested] What did you say?
- Chief Superintendent Bright: [delighted] That I hadn't.
- DI Fred Thursday: One for the memoirs, sir.
- Chief Superintendent Bright: [delighted] Yes, I think we can all take pride that everything went off without the slightest hitch.
- DC Endeavour Morse: [hangs up and enters the room] That was British Imperial, sir. A body's been found at the factory. Looks like murder.
- Nora Broom: [taking her seat at the board meeting] Where would you like me, Henry?
- Henry Broom: [with loathing] Under the sod!
- Nora Broom: [with a charming smile] I was that twenty years, if you remember.
- [last lines]
- DC Endeavour Morse: [exits the factory and meets DI Thursday after the killer is arrested] You want me to run you back?
- DI Fred Thursday: [after a short pause] Go on then.
- [they approach the car]
- DI Fred Thursday: Are you doing anything tonight?
- DC Endeavour Morse: [simply] No.
- DI Fred Thursday: I was after a cod and and two penn'oth. Glad of the company if you'd like to join me.
- DC Endeavour Morse: What? No sandwiches?
- DI Fred Thursday: [surprised] On a Saturday? Talk sense!
- [factory workers go back inside the factory as Morse and Thursday get in the car and drive away down a street lined with red, blue and white coloured triangular flags]
- Alice Vexin: [asking Morse about his police life] You like it?
- DC Endeavour Morse: I like the work. To be honest, I'm not sure I fit in.
- Alice Vexin: No, you were never like the rest.
- DC Endeavour Morse: Well, I wanted to be. Tried to be, I think.
- Alice Vexin: [genuinely surprised] When?
- DC Endeavour Morse: I did. I tried to like Trad, the Angries, Sartre. French cigarettes.
- Alice Vexin: That's why I liked you. You were... difficult.
- DC Endeavour Morse: Different, surely?
- Alice Vexin: Difficult, definitely. Awkward. You were all corners, socially.
- DC Endeavour Morse: [wanting to change the subject] Ah, well...
- Alice Vexin: And so angry! "Contra Mundum" - but yourself, most of all.
- [Johnny Broom drives into the factory in a noisy E-Type Jaguar, hooting at people who get in his way]
- Reg Tracepurcel: There he goes - Turd of Turd Hall.
- Nora Broom: [kissing her son and sniffing his breath at the same time] Bourbon for breakfast?
- Richard Broom: [grimly] I knew you were coming.
- Crown Prince Nabil: The Prophet, peace be upon him, teaches us, "Say what is true, though it may be bitter and displeasing to people."
- DI Fred Thursday: We have a not dissimilar saying. Tell the truth, and shame the Devil.
- DC Endeavour Morse: You should be aware that to take receipt of stolen property is an offense in law.
- Crown Prince Nabil: As you should also be aware, Constable Morse, we are not the same little people Colonel Lawrence left behind. We learned much from our colonial masters. Perfidious Albion. An unkind name to hang upon a country. But not perhaps wholly undeserved.
- PC Jim Strange: Did I hear you say pictures? 'S all right for some. What're you going to see?
- DC Endeavour Morse: There's a new Bergman.
- PC Jim Strange: Oh, yeah? I thought she was cracking in Casablanca.
- Dr. Max DeBryn: [after a body has been unearthed] Winnowing out the wheat from chaff - it's always a challenge after so long in the earth.
- DS Peter Jakes: [after Morse has angrily crossed swords with Bright] Don't do yourself any favours, do you?
- DC Endeavour Morse: "Without fear or favour" - isn't that the job?
- DI Fred Thursday: What have you got?
- Dr. Max DeBryn: Not enough room to swing a cat, as you can see.
- Chief Superintendent Bright: What is that - a screwdriver?
- Dr. Max DeBryn: Driven into the right ocular orbit with some considerable force.
- DC Endeavour Morse: Death would have been instantaneous?
- Dr. Max DeBryn: More or less.
- Chief Superintendent Bright: No chance it could have been an accident?
- Dr. Max DeBryn: [sarcastic] Not unless he picked himself up and dragged himself in here.
- DI Fred Thursday: What's all this, then?
- DC Endeavour Morse: Well... nothing, probably.
- DI Fred Thursday: Nothing with you usually means something. So... out with it.
- DC Endeavour Morse: [indicating Percy Malleson's shoes] Well, it just struck me as odd, that's all. "Cribb and Co." - there's another pair of these at Malleson's flat. There can't be many on the assembly line at BIEC wearing hand-made shoes.
- Cribb's Bootmaker: [checking records to see who owns the shoes Morse has found] We make a last for each of our customers, taking into consideration any idiosyncrasies of the foot. Hallux valgus, polydactyli, sybdactyli... Rather like fingerprints. Ah...
- DC Endeavour Morse: [the bootmaker has found a name] Malleson, would it be? Percy Malleson?
- Cribb's Bootmaker: No, this is Mr. Kendrick, Eustace Kendrick. A student at Curtmantle, by the address. Yes, he had two pairs off us in May of '53. Oh - it would appear that the bill is still outstanding. Oh, yes, of course - that Mr. Kendrick. The business with the Rix girl. Well, it was all over the papers.
- DC Endeavour Morse: [angrily dismissing Bright's theory] I might live with one dead murderer, but not a brace!
- Henry Broom: [as Morse gazes at the new rocket] Magnificent, isn't it?
- DC Endeavour Morse: [unimpressed] Terrifying, certainly.
- PC Jim Strange: [having spruced himself up for the royal visit] How do I look?
- DC Endeavour Morse: [searching for a compliment] Very... dependable.
- PC Jim Strange: Oh. I was hoping for "smart".
- DI Fred Thursday: [after he has insulted Dr. Volk, the German rocket scientist] It was him and a lot more like him flattened my street.
- DC Endeavour Morse: I'm sure it wasn't personal.
- DI Fred Thursday: Why did you all deny knowing her?
- Henry Broom: Why not? You couldn't find her 12 years ago. Why rake over it all now?
- Johnny Broom: People would only gossip. Why give them ammunition? Never apologize, never explain.
- Nora Broom: You may have banished me from hearth and home, but I still hold 33% of the company's stock.
- Henry Broom: You wouldn't have come here if you weren't willing to negotiate.
- Nora Broom: Perhaps I just fancied seeing how a princess holds her fork.
- DC Endeavour Morse: [confronting protestors outside the factory] I'm don't doubt that you're all very sincere, but you might get your message across better if you go to the trouble of spelling "Levellers" correctly.
- Nora Broom: [after Richard has threatened her] You haven't got it in you. Once, poor darling, but not any more.
- DI Fred Thursday: Is that the Chief Constable's car I saw earlier?
- Chief Superintendent Bright: [in despair over his future] Thirty-four years! If this matter touches the palace, I've been left in no doubt as to where the buck comes to rest.