Quotes
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DI Fred Thursday : You never thought to go back after your husband died?
Luisa Armstrong : There's nothing for me there.
DI Fred Thursday : Family?
Luisa Armstrong : No.
DI Fred Thursday : You shouldn't be alone, too much life in you for that.
Luisa Armstrong : I should find someone to take care of me, you mean? Who? A policeman?
DI Fred Thursday : We were friends once.
Luisa Armstrong : That's the last thing we were. Friendship takes time. What did we have? Two months? Three? If that. There wasn't room for friendship, too.
DI Fred Thursday : Don't tell me. I was there. I remember everything. Everything. Every moment like nothing before or since. It's here. Still. Forever. The scene of the pines. The sun on the water. So vivid. And you. All above everything, I remember you.
Luisa Armstrong : Don't.
DI Fred Thursday : Your eyes.
Luisa Armstrong : You can't say these things. You can't, not to me.
DI Fred Thursday : I've no-one else to say them to.
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[last lines]
Luisa Armstrong : [voiceover of her note to Thursday as Morse reads, then burns it] You should know it was not Ugo betrayed us all those years ago. They said they would spare Francesca. I should have died at the villa Casa Rianca. I have lived with my sin, hidden it from the world. And then I saw you again. I just want to be at peace. Every life holds one great love, one name to hold on to at the end, one face to take into the dark. It was always too late. A number of the garde knew and forgive her. We were young. There was the war. Amore mio.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [asking Luisa about her acquaintance with Thursday] You were friends - in Italy?
Luisa Armstrong : More.
[after a meaningful pause]
Luisa Armstrong : Comrades.
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Luisa Armstrong : What do you want, Fredo? I'm not her. She died. Remember the girl you knew.
DI Fred Thursday : I have. Always.
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DI Fred Thursday : [recalling the war, and his reason for thinking Luisa dead] When nobody arrived at the rendezvous, I made my way back to the villa with Lupo. We saw from the olive grove, through binoculars. They had you lined up against the white wall. Francesca I recognized first - that red dress. Then I saw you beside her. I saw you fall. I thought you were dead. I tried to get down, but Lupo cold-cocked me. Just as well - more than likely, I'd have got them killed as well. When I came to, it was dark. A cave somewhere. He said they'd got everyone.
Luisa Armstrong : [meaningfully] They did.
