Quotes
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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.
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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]
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DCI Fred Thursday : There's a reckoning to be made, but it's ours to make.
Eddie Nero : Better get your skates on, then.
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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.