Photos
Quotes
-
DS Endeavour Morse : We should be getting back.
DCI Fred Thursday : No. Another five minutes will be all right. God, I love this place. You should've seen their faces - Win and the kids - when I brought 'em here for the first time. We'd been two-up, back-to-back in the Smoke. Couldn't believe somewhere like this existed. Not after bomb sites and soot. It was like stepping out of black and white and into colour.
-
DCI Fred Thursday : [after Nero has survived an attempt on his life] Sounds like you had a close shave.
Eddie Nero : I've had closer.
DCI Fred Thursday : Cromwell Ames - can't have you pair shooting up the town like it was the Wild West. Someone's going to get hurt.
Eddie Nero : I nearly got hurt.
DS Jim Strange : Someone who matters.
-
DCI Fred Thursday : [talking about impending retirement] I'd hoped for one last decent collar together. This Cromwell Ames - Eddie Nero - both, if we're lucky.
DS Endeavour Morse : Maybe they'll cancel each other out.
DCI Fred Thursday : It's who else they cancel out in the meantime, that's what bothers me.
-
DCI Fred Thursday : [discovering his brother has lost all the money he lent him in shady activities] You've done me, Charlie! My whole life, everything I've worked for - dragged into the sewer!
Charlie Thursday : I didn't know...
DCI Fred Thursday : Don't lie to me!
Charlie Thursday : I had to do what I did, for Paulette, for Carol...
DCI Fred Thursday : What about me and Win? It was our retirement, our life savings. Now I've got to spend whatever I've got left looking over my shoulder, waiting for the knock!
-
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Well... When I arrived here three years ago, I had such high hopes. What an ignominious end I have led you all to. I shall resign, of course.
DCI Fred Thursday : Sir...
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : No, I failed him. I failed my men. The station gone. My brightest and best cast to the four winds and all is...
[sighs]
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : ... brought to ruin.
-
DS Jim Strange : [after Fancy's death] We might be down, but we're not out. I'll be damned if this is how it ends. We'll have justice for him, sir. Find who shot that bullet, whatever it takes.
DCI Fred Thursday : Jim's right, sir. They can call us Thames Valley till the cows come home, but wherever we wash up, we're City men, each one of us. To our boots. To the last.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : So few.
DS Endeavour Morse : Enough to give him justice!
DCI Fred Thursday : We'll find the bastard, sir.
Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright : Your word on it?
DCI Fred Thursday : My oath!
DS Jim Strange : And mine.
DS Endeavour Morse : For George.
-
DCI Fred Thursday : [on Morse and Trewlove working undercover] Don't seem like proper coppering to me. Tomorrow's world. Pity.
-
DCI Fred Thursday : [confronting the dying Eddie Nero in a room full of corpses] Drop the gun, Eddie.
Eddie Nero : [pulling the trigger; it clicks empty] It's empty anyway.
DCI Fred Thursday : Easy, Eddie. Don't talk.
Eddie Nero : [making a great effort with his last breath] It... wasn't... me!
[He dies, indicating, as he does, the hitherto-unseen dead body of George Fancy]
-
DCI Fred Thursday : There's a reckoning to be made, but it's ours to make.
Eddie Nero : Better get your skates on, then.
-
Win Thursday : [over dinner] You're not still fretting over Morse?
DCI Fred Thursday : No. I've set him on his way.
Win Thursday : Good. Got some room for rice pud?
DCI Fred Thursday : Skin on? Smashing!
-
DCI Fred Thursday : Don't get caught on the wrong side, Eddie. You're no good to your boy banged up - or worse. Coldwater must be a pricey touch.
Eddie Nero : You leave Brett out of this!
DCI Fred Thursday : For now. Mind how you go.