Inspector Morse (TV Series)

The Wolvercote Tongue (1987)

Peter Woodthorpe: Max

Quotes 

• Chief Inspector Morse : How long was he in the water?

  Max : Oh, I couldn't possibly say.

  Chief Inspector Morse : Roughly?

  Max : Ah, not more than six hours.

  Chief Inspector Morse : Oh, for God's sake! It's less than six hours since I saw him.

  Max : Well, there you are. You know better than me - as usual. Any witnesses?

  Chief Inspector Morse : To what?

  Max : To your meeting with the victim.

  Chief Inspector Morse : None that I know of.

  Max : Then you'd better arrest yourself, Morse. You work on the principle that the last person to see someone alive must be his killer, don't you?

• Max : Ah, Morse. Now you're a pathologist, I expect you'd like to give your opinion before you see the corpse. Poindexter you say his name was?

  Chief Inspector Morse : Suicide by drowning.

  Max : Back to school for you, I'm afraid. Wrong on both counts. Go and see for yourself.

  Chief Inspector Morse : Max!

  Max : No, no, no. You're the expert.

• Max : [to Morse]  All these deaths are beginning to prey upon what you are pleased to call your mind.

• Chief Inspector Morse : Where are you off to? High table somewhere?

  Max : Area Health Authority Annual Dinner. Dr. Swain will be there I'll give him your compliments, shall I? Good night , Lewis.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Good night, sir.

  Max : Try not to let Morse drink so much, won't you? It's rotting his powers of reason.

• Max : Why the hell Morse has to drag me out to confirm a perfectly ordinary heart attack.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : I think he thought it wasn't perfectly ordinary, sir.

  Max : He thought wrong, as usual.