Number 17 (1932)
John Stuart: Barton - the Detective
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Quotes
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Rose Ackroyd : It's like the pictures, isn't it?
Fordyce/Barton : Too much for my liking.
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Fordyce/Barton : What have you got in your pockets?
Ben : Holes!
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[Ben is asked his name after having tried to leave the scene several times]
Fordyce/Barton : Ben what?
Ben : Well, if it wasn't for you, Guv'nor, it'd be Ben Bolt.
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Fordyce/Barton : What are you doing down there?
Ben : I - I was lookin' for you, Guv'nor.
Fordyce/Barton : Well, where am I?
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Fordyce/Barton : Quite sure you don't know anything about that?
Ben : Wot, me? If I'd a dun it, I'd a know'd it, wouldn't I? Don't suppose one forgets a murder, like postin' of a letter!
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Fordyce/Barton : It always pays an innocent man to play it straight, you know.
Ben : Who says I'm an innocent man? Who says I ain't a playin' straight?
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Rose Ackroyd : Can ye see anything?
Ben : Yes.
Fordyce/Barton , Rose Ackroyd : What?
Ben : Houses!
Rose Ackroyd : Silly idiot!
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Fordyce/Barton : Have you hurt yourself?
Ben : What, me? Nah. No! What happened to me in the War, Guv'nor, blown up by a mine and come down singing!
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Henry Doyle : Now, for you Ben.
Ben : Here, here, who gave you permission to call me Ben?
Henry Doyle : Sorry, I don't know your other name.
Ben : Lloyd George.
Fordyce/Barton : I like you, Ben. You make me laugh.
Ben : I'll remember that, Guv'nor. Give a job in the cabinet, next election.
Fordyce/Barton : Where's that going to be?
Ben : Give me the 'Messin' About' Department.
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[first lines]
Ben : Oh! Oh, Gawd! Oh, Gawd! Oh, Gawd! Oh!
Fordyce/Barton : How do you feel? Now, where's that candle? Here, have some of this.
