Quotes
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : [reading the diary of the murdered woman, with its confessions of adultery] What do they want?
DI Fred Thursday : Passion would seem to be the long and the short of it, sir.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : [when Morse has queried the findings of DI Chard] A junior officer calling the work of a senior Detective Inspector into question? Mr. Merchant's been charged. Are you sure about this?
DI Fred Thursday : Wedding and engagement rings are missing in all cases. Could go long, sir. I'd be glad of Morse if you can spare him from this report.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Oh. Yes - yes, I suppose. Probably best to keep him out of DI Chard's way.Not everyone has my forgiving nature.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Ah! Excitement. What happened to reliability, hmm?
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Of course, North Oxford's full of that type. Life a drama... And themselves its star. The damage done.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [investigating the death of Norman Parkis] It's connected to the strangler.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : To the strangler? By what means?
DC Endeavour Morse : The stockings he's used on the last two victims. Burridge's is...
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : ...the only place that supplies them. But, outside of that, the victim is, in this instance, male and he's been stabbed rather than strangled - which leads me to believe that the enquiry should be assigned to another investigating officer.