Ripper Street (TV Series)

The King Came Calling (2013)

Matthew Macfadyen: Det. Insp. Edmund Reid

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• [last lines] 

  Sidney Ressler : Reid, I cannot help but think the man's further excesses, his need to move beyond that initial batch... Dozens have perished, your wife almost among them... Had I not bowed to pressure to keep those bodies secret, the public knowledge of those deaths might have been enough to sate his madness.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Word of advice, Ressler. This work we perform, it does not serve to look backward. This city, wickedness will ever leave its spores here. You and I, we are not magicians. We cannot see through walls or into men's minds. Dozens perished, but hundreds who were ill are now well once more. We fight. We fight with all the skills we may muster. Beyond that, we may do no more.

• Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : [Speaking with Ressler]  Have you ever heard of ergotism?

  Cpt. Homer Jackson : I'm with you.

• [entering the City of London, Reid and Drake pass a woman with two dogs] 

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : [doffing his hat]  Ma'am.

  [the woman ignores him and continues on her way] 

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Money never begat courtesy, Bennet.

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : No, sir.

• Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : [in the morgue]  Yet these, these first, we may study, they must show us the way to our poisoner. Now, Mr. Ressler, you must have thought of the details of these men, the circumstances and commonalities that might bind them?

  Sidney Ressler : Yes, I have, of course... but nothing.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : No, we do not allow nothing! There must be a connection!

  Cpt. Homer Jackson : Reid... iodine, cabinet.

  [Reid takes a jar from the cabinet and a paintbrush, while Jackson wipes the chalkboard clean and begins a list] 

  Sidney Ressler : [confused]  What are they doing now?

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : If you don't know, and I don't, sir, it's often best not to ask.

• Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Bennett! Bennett, will you... will you do me a service?

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : Name it, sir.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Mrs. Reid. I, uh... I may not leave here at this time, but I would know she was well.

  Det. Sgt. Bennet Drake : It'll be my pleasure, sir.

  Cpt. Homer Jackson : [as Drake turns to leave]  Drake... take a turn past Tenter Street as well, will ya?

• Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Morning to you.

  Preacher : And to yourself.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : [sees the almost empty street]  You are alone here?

  Preacher : The world hides in fright when there's rumor of cholera.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : But not yourself?

  Preacher : No, sir. I make my home where other men's fear lies. I fight it for them.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Then you are welcome here.

• [in the Eastern Dispensary] 

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : It spreads.

  Cpt. Homer Jackson : Indeed.

  Det. Insp. Edmund Reid : Is it what we fear?

  Cpt. Homer Jackson : That depends what you fear. The fat man, his insides have a story to tell... but that story ain't cholera.