Sean Rigby credited as playing...
DS Jim Strange
- DCI Fred Thursday: You're a good sergeant, Jim. Good man, too.
- DS Jim Strange: [embarrassed] Oh, I don't know about that, sir.
- DCI Fred Thursday: You took Morse in. There's not many would have done that.
- DS Jim Strange: He'd do the same for me.
- DCI Fred Thursday: Would he?
- DS Jim Strange: [laughing] He's a prickly bugger at the best of times. Just how he is.
- DS Jim Strange: [after George Fancy has left] George seems a nice lad.
- DS Endeavour Morse: [disapprovingly] He's a cocky little sod.
- DS Jim Strange: Of course he is. He's young. All piss and vinegar. We were young once.
- DS Endeavour Morse: I'm still young.
- DS Jim Strange: If you say so.
- DS Jim Strange: [after DeBryn has examined the headless body] Anything, doc?
- Dr. Max DeBryn: Well, his head's in this room and his body's in that room. That might have something to do with it.
- DS Jim Strange: Anything as to a time, say?
- Dr. Max DeBryn: Within the last three to four hours. Looks to have had his throat cut first, from right to left. Then decapitation post mortem. Small mercies.
- Dr. Max DeBryn: [surveying the corpse of Robin Grey, stabbed in both eyes] Aye, aye. Right first, then left. Sometime between eight and midnight.
- DS Endeavour Morse: Any defensive wound?
- Dr. Max DeBryn: Didn't see it coming. Quite literally.
- DCI Fred Thursday: Who was he?
- DS Endeavour Morse: His name is Robin Grey. He's a history don here. I met him yesterday - the attempted break-in.
- DS Jim Strange: Last seen by the porter, going out about six last night. No-one saw him come back.
- DS Endeavour Morse: [observing lipstick on Grey's mouth] Lipstick - same as Joey Sikes.
- DS Jim Strange: I know you're out of practice, matey, but most women wear it. Uniform are fetching his wife in.
- Dr. Max DeBryn: There is evidence of coitus.