Quotes
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DS Jim Strange : [describing the predatory activities of the mythical "Beast of Binsey"] It's usually on a full moon.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : [saracastically] Or a full bladder.
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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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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.
