Midsomer Murders (TV Series)

Who Killed Cock Robin? (2001)

Larry Lamb: Melvyn Stockard

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• DCI Tom Barnaby : Last I heard you were living the life of Riley down in Costa Blanca.

  Melvyn Stockard : Yeah, well, it's amazing what a triple bypass operation will do for a man's view of himself.

• Melvyn Stockard : With murder you start with motive and opportunity. Am I right, Tom?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : That is usually the way round of it, yeah, Melvyn.

  Melvyn Stockard : And in this village there is a person with an abundance of both, though it grieves me to say since he was about to become family.

  Julie Stockard : No! You can't just accuse him.

  Melvyn Stockard : I'm not accusing anyone, sweetheart. That's Barnaby's job. And the sooner he gets his skates on, the better for all concerned.

• Melvyn Stockard : [to Barnaby after Robin Wooliscroft's body is raised from the well]  Ding dong bell, Pussy's in the well, Who put him in? Little Tommy Flynn? Who pulled him out? Little Tommy Stout.

• Melvyn Stockard : Have you got kids?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Yes, a daughter. She's a picture, too.

  Melvyn Stockard : They break your heart, don't they?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : Oh, you can say that I... I've been lucky so far.

  Melvyn Stockard : You give them everything and they break your bloody heart.

• DCI Tom Barnaby : Melvyn, I've spoken to Bubbles.

  Melvyn Stockard : Oh, really?

  DCI Tom Barnaby : I'm sorry to hear about your difficulties.

  Melvyn Stockard : Yeah, well, uh... there are many ways of pleasing a woman, Barnaby. Didn't you know?

• Jackie Marsh : It's the Old Bill, sir.

  Melvyn Stockard : Not the goat?

• Julie Stockard : Daddy, what's the policeman doing here?

  Melvyn Stockard : I haven't a clue, sweetheart.

• Reverend Thorne : [speaking about Joe Megson, father of Julie's fiancé]  But, well, let me be frank. He's known by reputation to be...

  Julie Stockard : What? Known to be what?

  Reverend Thorne : Well, to be charitable, a man of uncertain temperament. And it would take such a man allied to a brutal physical strength to carry out such an appalling deed.

  Julie Stockard : What did you just say?

  Francesca Ward : Julie...

  Julie Stockard : No! He's talking about my future father-in-law. Daddy, I don't want him to marry me!

  Melvyn Stockard : Calm down.

  Julie Stockard : No, I won't! This man's a slimy creature who'll do anything you say to get his bloody roof mended!