Due South (TV Series)

Diefenbaker's Day Off (1994)

Madolyn Smith Osborne: Mackenzie King

Photos 

Quotes 

• [stuck at a road work zone] 

  Mackenzie King : Go around!

  Ray Vecchio : On the sidewalk? Oh, yeah, you'd love that! 'Maniac Detective Slaughters Pedestrian'!

• Mackenzie King : How much do you make?

  Constable Benton Fraser : Me? Well it's in Canadian funds, so you have to deduct 38% , but, uh...

  Mackenzie King : Enough.

  Constable Benton Fraser : About myself. Absolutely. Consulate work is pretty dull. Although there was this one passport case...

  Mackenzie King : Wait a minute. You work at the consulate?

  Constable Benton Fraser : Well, yes. That's why I'm paid in Canadian funds. It's some- it's and odd governmental regulation.

  Mackenzie King : So now you're denying you work with Charlie?

  Constable Benton Fraser : With Charlie? No, no. I could never be a professional boxer. I mean, in high school I...

  Mackenzie King : I saw you bring him in. Are you telling me you don't feed patients to the clinic. You're not involved in this million dollar insurance scam? You're just this straight-arrow, do-gooding Mountie out to help the little guy? Tell me why I find that hard to believe.

  Constable Benton Fraser : Well, I understand your skepticism. Appearances can be deceiving. I mean, for example, you're a nurse, yet you wear extremely high heels to work, which indicates either you haven't been a nurse for very long, or you have remarkable arches. Also, the way you hold your wrists suggests you spend many hours at a computer keyboard. And add to that, the slight crick in your neck, which indicates extended phone usage, and the minute traces of printer's ink under your three-quarter-inch nails, which by the way, must make bandaging quite a challenge and a less trusting person might assume that you weren't a nurse at all. A less trusting person might assume that you work, say, for a newspaper but then appearances can be deceiving.

  Mackenzie King : And you've known this since...?

  Constable Benton Fraser : The parking lot. Also, you should check you tape recorders. I think either your battery is leaking or some liquid has spilled into the motor. From the smell of it, I would say...

  [sniffs] 

  Constable Benton Fraser : mace.