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"Jerome Hogg: You must know her...the face that launched a thousand clips. That's a technical TV term."
"Ian Kerr: What's this?"
"Ian Kerr: Right, what have you got for me?"
"Lewis: A Vincent 'Black Shadow' motorcycle, registration number Oh Ay Eff ..."
"Morse: Here we are again, Lewis. Piecing together the last moments of a total stranger."
"Lewis: Tired, Sir?"
"Morse: Hello, Harry - I got your note."
"Morse: (Reads) Lignum crucis arbor scientiae... the wood of the cross is the tree of knowledge."
"Harry Field's answering machine: Hello, this is Harry. Health, Wealth and Happiness! Leave a message - for God's sake!"
"Sister: And what, may I ask, are you doing with my patient?!"
"Lewis: [Enquiring after the chain-smoking female priest] Who, cigar and cassock?"
"Lewis: That badge of yours. Why did you keep it?"
"Lewis: I think you could have let her win the chess, Sir."
"Morse: Get on with it, Lewis!"
"Frederick Redpath: My name is Frederick Redpath. It has been for the last eleven years."
"Morse: Different policemen have different methods, Mrs Lapsley"
"Mrs Dawson: Patrick thinks you're a very good detective. A poor policeman, and a very good detective."
"Morse: Well, I think I'll go for a walk. What about you?"
"Constable: I was over the way ... and there was this car..."
"Lewis: (Noticing Inspector Hillian's drinking) The way he knocks it back, it's a wonder he lived to collect an OBE."
"Morse: (to Lewis) Go and see it! You'll love it...it's got a dragon."
"Morse: No, I don't join groups. I'm even thinking of leaving the choir."
"Morse: Toscanini? Arturo Toscanini? That's the WORST recording of 'The Magic Flute' there's ever been! I wouldn't even let it in the house!"
"Hugo deVries: I am Zoroastro; YOU are Monostatos!"
"Hugo deVries: I like being dead. It takes the strain out of living."
"Lewis: (admiring DeVries' Jaguar) Nice car!"
"Hugo deVries: You're sweating, Morse. It's most disagreeable."
"Morse: With a man like deVries, you have to look INSIDE the coffin!"
"Lewis: (to Bottomley) Like a game of chess, do you, Sir?"
"Morse: You'd better start by rolling your trouser-leg up, Lewis. DCI Bottomley is a grand master, a grander master that I."
"Lewis: You go trampling about, don't you. You think you're so clever, but sometimes you're a bloody fool!"
"Morse: That's our man, alright!"
"George: The electrics are up the chute, for a start."
"Lewis: Do you fancy a pint, Sir?"
"Morse: That's it, Lewis! You're a genius!"
"Mrs Radford: So, Morse, must the evil that men do live on after them?"
"Lewis: The last shall be first and the first shall be last"
"Butler: Your name, Sir?"
"Lewis: You'll never believe this, Sir. We have to visit a brewery!"
"Mrs Copley-Barnes: There was a Serpent in our house, coiled around the foundation."
"Lewis: Taxonomy? Sounds like stuffing. Stuffing umbrellas?"
"Lewis: Aw, it's lentil soup in the canteen today"
"Milton's 'Paradise Lost': (Book 1) "Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile stir'd up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd the Mother of Mankind ...""
"Mrs Hederson: It was just after I was speaking to you Sgt Lewis, it was really strange."
"Lewis: I have to, er, y'know (use the Gents')"
"Morse: People are dying out there. Even cricket has to come to a stop."
"Morse: Would you keep an eye on my car? It's the red 'Jaguar' across the road."
"Roland Marshall: Morse. My God ... it's 'Pagan Morse' !"
"Morse: I stumble about. That's what I do. Sometimes I stumble in the right direction."
"The New Testament: "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death.""