Inspector Lewis (TV Series)
Counter Culture Blues (2009)
Laurence Fox: DS James Hathaway
Quotes
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DI Robert Lewis : Do you know what I'm doing? Trying to think like Morse.
DS James Hathaway : [facetiously] Does that mean we're going to the pub?
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DI Robert Lewis : Bow down before the Midnight Addiction
DS James Hathaway : Absolutely
[discarding his cigarette]
DS James Hathaway : Well I... use the word "Absolutely" in a purely private sense, meaning I've no idea what you're talking about
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DS James Hathaway : You got a minute, Peter?
Peter : Actually, no I haven't
DS James Hathaway : I gather you're reading
[Oxfordspeak for Studying]
DS James Hathaway : Classics, so you'll appreciate the concept of the rhetorical question
[shows Peter his badge]
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Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent : Ah, there you are
DI Robert Lewis : Yes ma'am; you sent for us
Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent : Warrant. Needless to say - though, in my experience, the needless needs announcing through a loud-hailer - this must be handled with extreme delicacy. If the press get it, the Chief Constable is going to make my life very disagreeable, and if my life is disagreeable, your life is going to be absolute screaming hell. What am I saying here, Hathaway?
DS James Hathaway : You're saying it's preferable not to alert the press, ma'am
Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent : Your job is to shout that in the Inspector's ear, whenever he seems to be about to do something rash
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DS James Hathaway : The suffering and endurance, Doctor, the bedrock of a happy marriage.
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Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent : What was that?
[Turning exasperatedly toward Hathaway, who has not said anything at all]
DS James Hathaway : I didn't speak Ma'am.
Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent : You didn't
[She acknowledges pointedly]
Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent : and I Heard you NOT doing it!
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Peter : I want a lawyer.
DS James Hathaway : I'm sure you do, but I forgot to bring one.
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Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent : [as Lewis walks out of the interview room, having solved the case. She turns to Hathaway with a sigh] Don't say it.
DS James Hathaway : I won't Ma'am.
[He sighs as well and continues]
DS James Hathaway : But, he is a bloody genius.