Quotes
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DC Endeavour Morse : There was a box in the boot of the car filled with stag films.
Dr. Max DeBryn : Nature studies?
DC Endeavour Morse : Not an antler in sight, I'm afraid.
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Felix Lorimer : You ever think of picking up your degree?
DC Endeavour Morse : Oh, no. Like innocence and hope for mankind, I number it now amongst the lost things.
Felix Lorimer : Pity.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [after Thursday has returned from a gangster funeral] How'd it go?
DI Fred Thursday : [coughing badly because of his lung wound] You know what they say about funerals. There's always someone catches his death.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [discovering that the pornographic films in the dead man's car have titles parodying those of theatrical masterworks] Only in Oxford!
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DC Endeavour Morse : [to Felix Lorimer] Is there something you wanted to talk to me about? You didn't invite me here just to kick through the leaves.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [returning to his old college] Coming through the quad, it's hard to believe I was ever here at all.
Felix Lorimer : It was funny, seeing you coming, through the window. You had that same look on your face the first time I ever saw you.
DC Endeavour Morse : What look's that?
Felix Lorimer : Oh... Nervous, shy, hopeful.
DC Endeavour Morse : Yes, I suppose I was all of those things. Frightened, mostly - that's my abiding memory.
Felix Lorimer : Of what?
DC Endeavour Morse : Of being found out.
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Dr. Max DeBryn : Now, what's all this about a sergeant's exam? Pastures new?
DC Endeavour Morse : How's that?
Dr. Max DeBryn : There's not going to be enough room for two sergeants at Cowley, is there?
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WPC Shirley Trewlove : [after Thursday's suspension] What is going on upstairs with Inspector Thursday?
DC Endeavour Morse : Why, what have you heard?
WPC Shirley Trewlove : That he leaned on someone a little too heavily. At least, that's the word around the canteen.
DC Endeavour Morse : The canteen? I wouldn't trust the spotted dick in that place, let alone anything else.
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DC Endeavour Morse : If you gun down a senior police officer in cold blood, they'll hunt you down to the end of your days, that's all!