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The Waiting Game (2014)

Max Davine: Detective Thomas Bird

The Waiting Game

Max Davine credited as playing...

Detective Thomas Bird

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  • Sergeant Natalie Grant: What, they say we're the lucky country? We're just the lucky country because we're able to fit all these large buildings onto this tiny, little, heat-stroke island without having to branch out into the sea like Venice in Italy.
  • Detective Thomas Bird: What've you got against Venice? It's the city of love.
  • Sergeant Natalie Grant: [scoffs] Venice is not the city of love. Paris is the city of love. Venice is the city of piss; the city of self-defeat, of ingenious and non-ingenious. I mean, the fact that they had to build...
  • Detective Thomas Bird: You know what? Look, I like gondolas. This is the place. Let's go in.
  • Detective Thomas Bird: How is she?
  • Leigh Bird: Shaken like a martini, thanks for asking.
  • Detective Thomas Bird: Oh, good, is that what they taught you in medical school? You know, if I wanted bullshit, I would've been a school teacher.
  • Leigh Bird: [about the rapist after Jacquie has been attacked again] He could've practised.
  • Detective Thomas Bird: Practised on what do you think? Animals, dead things, kids, women? Women. He practises on women. That's how they do it. And he's getting braver; that's why he's got the knife now. *That's* practise.
  • Leigh Bird: Well, it's not like I've any fucking practise, you know.
  • Detective Thomas Bird: How're ya doing?
  • Jacquie Delice: You've asked me that like 6 times already.

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