Quotes
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Geoff Craven : [after hearing Bright's story about shooting a tiger in India] Tells a good tale, your man; I'll give him that.
DI Fred Thursday : If Mr. Bright says that's how it happened, that's how it happened.
Geoff Craven : I doubt it. I mean, look at him. One sniff of a man-eater behind him and he'd be hiding under the desk.
DC Endeavour Morse : You clearly don't know Mr. Bright.
Geoff Craven : I know a man who's all hat and no cattle when I see one.
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Sam Thursday : This, with work - whatever it is, you'll get him.
DI Fred Thursday : Will I?
Sam Thursday : Of course. You're my dad.
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DI Fred Thursday : [interrogating Hodges over the death of Ingrid Hjort] You know what I think? You went after her with your shovel, as you didn't plan on making the same mistake you made with Sandra Jordan.
Hodges : What mistake?
DI Fred Thursday : You left her alive.
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DI Fred Thursday : [after the tiger has been shot, the murderer arrested and the case, as well as a previous one from years before, closed] Drink, then?
DC Endeavour Morse : After today - several.
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DI Fred Thursday : [responding to one of Morse's theories] You want me to go into Mr. Bright's office and say there's an East African leopard cult operating in Oxford?
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DI Fred Thursday : [discussing tiger-shooting with Craven] Have you had much experience in that regard?
Geoff Craven : [derisively] Enough to know that all you're likely to bag today is a wild goose.
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DC Endeavour Morse : [alarmed by Thursday's coughing fit, caused by his lung wound] What did they say at your check-up?
DI Fred Thursday : [still coughing badly as he speaks] They said I'm fine.
DC Endeavour Morse : You didn't go, did you?
DI Fred Thursday : Don't you start. I get enough of that at home. I have a lump of metal rattling about. What do you expect?
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Professor Kemp : [arriving at the river where a severed arm has been found] Just the arm, is it?
DS Jim Strange : So far.
Professor Kemp : Yes, well, drowned, most likely. Drinking, was he? Boat comes through, propeller hits the body, takes the arm off.
DC Endeavour Morse : [shocked at the casualness of this diagnosis] Are you sure?
DI Fred Thursday : [firmly] His girlfriend thinks it more likely he went in downriver.
Professor Kemp : [preparing to depart] Well, she's mistaken, clearly. I'll run a diatom test, naturally, but, in my considered opinion, it's a drowning and that's what my report will say.
