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DI Fred Thursday : [Morse is coming down from his drug "trip"] Morse? Morse!
DC Endeavour Morse : What day is it?
DI Fred Thursday : [testing him] Corned beef.
DC Endeavour Morse : It's Friday. It's Friday.
DI Fred Thursday : [relieved] That's right. Friday.
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Dudley Jessop : It was about love. She said it was dirty. How can love be dirty?
DC Endeavour Morse : Well, if it isn't, I expect you're not doing it right.
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DI Fred Thursday : [after marijuana has been found amongst the Wildwood's effects] Don't know why they bother with the stuff. Never did anything for me.
DC Endeavour Morse : [shocked] You've smoked pot? When?
DI Fred Thursday : Up the desert. They call it "kif" out there. Some of the lads were silly with it. You ever tried it?
DC Endeavour Morse : [indignant] I'm a serving police officer. Besides, I like to keep a clear head.
DI Fred Thursday : You put enough beer away.
DC Endeavour Morse : Beer's brain-food.
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Mrs. Joy Pettybon : And may I give you one of these to wear?
DI Fred Thursday : I wouldn't be allowed, madam. As a police officer, I have to remain impartial.
Mrs. Joy Pettybon : But no-one could argue with the sentiment, surely?
DC Endeavour Morse : Someone could, plainly.
DI Fred Thursday : Wearing that could be seen to betoken an affiliation, and we have to go about our business without fear or favour to any.
Rev. Mervyn Golightly : But, er, when you're not on duty?
DI Fred Thursday : A police officer's always on duty, Reverend. Much like yourself.
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Bettina Pettybon : Mummy found I had two glasses out. She... She forced me to tell her you'd been in my room. Are you in trouble?
DC Endeavour Morse : No more than usual.
Bettina Pettybon : Ah. Any news about Reverend Golightly?
DC Endeavour Morse : I've been taken off the case, I'm afraid.
Bettina Pettybon : Because of me?
DC Endeavour Morse : No. Because of me.
Bettina Pettybon : Is this you?
DC Endeavour Morse : It was. Once.
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Nick Wilding : Would you like some wine?
DC Endeavour Morse : No, thank you.
Nick Wilding : [quoting Baudelaire] "One should always be drunk". I think there's something in that, don't you?
DC Endeavour Morse : Possibly.
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Dr. Max DeBryn : [unveiling the first corpse in the morgue] Now, here's fun. The late Barry Finch, brickie's labourer to the stars. Cause of death...
DC Endeavour Morse : The strangulation?
Dr. Max DeBryn : Oh, he was strangled, yes. Several times. Only that's not what killed him.
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WPC Shirley Trewlove : They're comparing Nick's lyrics to James Joyce and Oscar Wilde.
DC Endeavour Morse : Who are?
WPC Shirley Trewlove : The critics. Full of symbolism and allusion, apparently.
DC Endeavour Morse : Full of something.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [asked if he's engaged or married] The only thing I have waiting for me at my flat is... Wagner.
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DI Fred Thursday : [after Morse has admitted being in Bettina's hotel room] You shouldn't have been there at all. Now you've been handed the black spot right from the top! Where do you think that leaves me? Mr. Bright wants you off the Golightly case. You'd better turn your brain back to Barry Finch. Get a result, you'll be back in Bright's good books. He has your best interests at heart.
DC Endeavour Morse : [sarcastic] Hides it well.
DI Fred Thursday : That's because he's a lot smarter than you give him credit for!
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DI Fred Thursday : [asking the possibility that Nick Wilding has been drugged with LSD] What's it do?
Dr. Max DeBryn : It produces extreme visual and auditory hallucinations. Not usually toxic chemically, but behaviourally.
DC Endeavour Morse : In what way?
Dr. Max DeBryn : Loss of inhibition. Compromised reality. Most deaths involving the substance are accidental - walking into traffic, onto railway lines, stepping off buildings. I'll talk to the lab. Easier to find something if you know what it is you're looking for.
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DI Fred Thursday : What's your part in all this, Dr. Bakshi?
Dr. Bakshi : My role? I was engaged by Mr. Spender as personal physician to the group.
DI Fred Thursday : What does that entail? Why would a bunch of fit young men need a personal doctor?
Dr. Bakshi : Oh, you'd be surprised. Sprains. Nervous exhaustion. A group on the road needs to be kept in tip-top condition.
DI Fred Thursday : How'd you go about that? Pills, is it? Uppers, downers?
Dr. Bakshi : Nothing illegal. But, yes, the occasional sleeping-draught, the odd booster.
DI Fred Thursday : So what's he taken here?
Dr. Bakshi : [emphatically] Nothing of mine. My diagnosis is, he has been given a large dose of lysergic acid diethylamide.
DC Endeavour Morse : And will he recover?
Dr. Bakshi : Oh, his body - yes. But his mind? It really depends on the size of the dose.
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Nick Wilding : I can't figure you out.
DC Endeavour Morse : What's to figure? I'm just a policeman.
Nick Wilding : Yeah, but you know that there's something happening, right? Here - in the world - everywhere. People our age looking for answers. But you... are in a suit.
DC Endeavour Morse : I'm happy in a suit.
Nick Wilding : Don't you want to expand your mind?
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Ken Wilding : [finding Morse questioning others in the group] What is this, some sort of frame-up?
Nick Wilding : Come on, Ken don't be a drag.
Ken Wilding : No, I'm dealing with this, Nick. So - if it's not a frame-up, what is it? A shakedown, is that it?
Ralph Spender : [alarmed] Ken!
[to Morse]
Ralph Spender : He doesn't mean that.
Ken Wilding : Just pay the man, Ralph.
DC Endeavour Morse : [outraged] Threatening to bribe a police officer is a serious offence!
Ken Wilding : I didn't. I told him to pay you.