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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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DC Endeavour Morse : Well, I'll need to speak to her and Georgina too.
Guy Mortmaigne : Is that really necessary? They've both had a lot to cope with, one way or another.
DC Endeavour Morse : Such as?
Guy Mortmaigne : Well, George, you know about. But, Julia's husband died, a boating accident, on the honeymoon. I really would sooner you didn't trouble them.
DC Endeavour Morse : That's what we do, I'm afraid.
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DC Endeavour Morse : Police - seems an unexpected choice for someone like yourself.
WPC Shirley Trewlove : What is someone like myself?
DC Endeavour Morse : I don't know. Bright, I suppose.
WPC Shirley Trewlove : What are bright girls supposed to do - marry well?
DC Endeavour Morse : Oh, I just meant it can be a pretty grim kind of calling.
WPC Shirley Trewlove : Maybe I like grim.
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DS Jim Strange : [having been promoted over Morse] Rank's not about brains. It's about playing the game. Or not, in your case. You rub people up the wrong way.
DC Endeavour Morse : Not intentionally.
DS Jim Strange : No? It just happens, does it?
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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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DC Endeavour Morse : What did you make of him? Dr Lorenz.
Julia Mortmaigne : I... thought that he was using Guy. Using my family's money. Which was always going to end badly for him. We're bad blood... the Mortmaignes. Rotten. Through and through.
DC Endeavour Morse : What, do you count yourself amongst that?
Julia Mortmaigne : Of course. I must be bad, mustn't I? I've been punished enough.
DC Endeavour Morse : Your husband? I'm sorry. Tragic as it was, it was an accident, not divine judgment.
Julia Mortmaigne : I thought... when I fell in love... that it would be some kind of fresh start. The slate wiped clean. All sins forgiven. But there can be no absolution without true contrition.
DC Endeavour Morse : Why? What do you need to atone for?
Julia Mortmaigne : I don't know. You know, I've tried to be good. But... it must just be... something inside of me.
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Georgina Mortmaigne : [in the private chapel at Crevecoeur Hall] Have you come to pray?
DC Endeavour Morse : Not today.
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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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Guy Mortmaigne : I'm sorry, I didn't like to get into it in front of George, but... there's a reason we got rid of the big cats. She was mauled, quite badly, when she was younger, by Brutus, one of the Bengals. A juvenile.
DS Jim Strange : What about escapes? These cubs? There's been reports of a wild animal taking livestock for some years now.
Guy Mortmaigne : The Beast of Binsey - that's just folklore.
DC Endeavour Morse : Four legs or two, it was something more than folklore that killed Dr Lorenz. It could just as easily have been someone, rather than something, hiding in the woods to waylay him.
Guy Mortmaigne : Well, whoever, or whatever it was... it's nothing to do with anyone here.
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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.
