Quotes
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Col. Champion : If you've ever wondered what a hero looks like, you've just met one. Colonel McDuff is the bravest man I ever saw.
DS Endeavour Morse : What's the matter with him?
Col. Champion : Korea, Imjin River. 4,000 of ours against 27,000 of theirs. It's a night action. Close quarters, wave after wave. A third of the battalion were killed or wounded, including Mad Jack McDuff, who took a mortar round. When the order came to fall back, he stayed behind to give the rest of us a chance. Had two years in a Chinese prison camp. If he drinks too much and sleeps with the light on, then, so be it. He's earned the right.
DS Endeavour Morse : Yeah, but all the same...
Col. Champion : No, Sergeant Morse, there's no "all the same" about it. The regiment takes care of its own.
