Inspector Morse (TV Series)
Twilight of the Gods (1993)
Robert Hardy: Andrew Baydon
Quotes
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Andrew Baydon : No one really likes opera. People only go for the intervals.
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Lord Hinksey : [referring to honorary doctorates] You know, however many you've got, they do die with you.
Andrew Baydon : I think I can live with that.
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Andrew Baydon : [Referring to Morse] Is that knob-head still here?
Helen Buscott, Baydon's secretary : Which one?
Andrew Baydon : That superannuated policeman with the scrap-heap of a car.
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Helen Buscott, Baydon's secretary : The Secretary of State wonders if you can spare a word.
Andrew Baydon : Knobhead! That's a word I can spare - knobhead!
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Chief Inspector Morse : [Discussing Andrew Braydon's decision to become a WWII prison camp guard] Why did you go to the fascists in the camp?
Andrew Baydon : You English. You have led such a sheltered English life. Oxford, a dream town. But there
[the camp]
Andrew Baydon : it was worse than any nightmare you could
[imagine]
Andrew Baydon : Life or death every minute of the day. My life or yours. Can you understand that! Knobhead? But even here, in Oxford,-if you had to decide, I kill you or you kill me, which way would you go?
Chief Inspector Morse : I don't know.
Andrew Baydon : Then, you would die.