Robert Hardy credited as playing...
Superintendent Brooks
- Superintendent Brooks: I guess I'm like most people, sir, reading about murder gives me a thrill.
- Commissioner Dalby: Yes. Well, your job is to stop it!
- Commissioner Dalby: Tell me, Superintendent, when you were a little boy, did you ever want to run away and join a circus?
- Superintendent Brooks: No, sir, not at all. No, I had a very happy life with love on both sides, plus a liberal allowance and two doting aunts.
- Commissioner Dalby: Dressing smartly is a fetish of yours.
- Superintendent Brooks: Well, sir, I don't drink or gamble.
- Commissioner Dalby: I know. Your only passion, apart from your work, is your wardrobe.
- Superintendent Brooks: Yes, sir. Your advice?
- Commissioner Dalby: Just this: leave your expensive feathers in their moth-proof containers. You'll find the circus is a rather untidy place.
- Monica Rivers: Naturally, as you say, we did become good friends.
- Superintendent Brooks: Intimate friends?
- Monica Rivers: If what you're trying to find out is whether or not I slept with Dorando, the answer is no.
- Superintendent Brooks: I was sorry I had to press the point, Miss Rivers. You'll understand that we cannot rule out a sex motive for the murder.