Quotes
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Good God! It's a machete-wielding West-Indian with a distinctive facial scar we're trying to find! In Oxford! It's not the Scarlet Pimpernel.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : One foreign national shot dead by another. The last thing we need is an international incident.
DCI Fred Thursday : I'd say we've got one, sir, whether we like it or not.
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Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Special Branch came in the early hours. Whatever it is, it's out of our hands. Perhaps it's for the best.
DS Endeavour Morse : [angry] Best for whom?
DCI Fred Thursday : All right, Morse.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : I don't care for it any more than you - but such are our orders and it behoves us to follow them. All of us.
DS Endeavour Morse : Two men are murdered on our ground and that's it?
DCI Fred Thursday : [with finality] That's it.
DS Endeavour Morse : And what about the little boy?
DCI Fred Thursday : Go home. It's Sunday.