Shaun Evans credited as playing...
DS Endeavour Morse
- [first lines]
- DS Endeavour Morse: The good ended happily and the bad unhappily; that's what fiction means. When the overture begins, you don't know what the opera might be or where the story might take you. Whether it'll be comedy or tragedy. This is a story about love.
- DS Endeavour Morse: [disgusted by Blish's chauvinistic attitudes to women] There's a don like that in every other common room in Oxford. His experience of the other half of humankind starts with Matron and doesn't get much further. Women are only good for ironing their shirts and making sure the cruet's filled at high table.
- Dorothea Frazil: What about you? You've clearly plans.
- [taking in his tuxedo]
- DS Endeavour Morse: [in a joking tone] Oh, I shall be oppressing someone, somewhere I expect. Keeping the chauvinist end up.
- Dorothea Frazil: Mmm...
- [understanding he's joking]
- DS Endeavour Morse: Otherwise, I take my comforts where I can, "Music hath charms."
- Dorothea Frazil: I'm still waiting to hear about Venice.
- DS Endeavour Morse: The streets are filled with water.
- [He smiles]
- Dorothea Frazil: [Grinning back] Stop press!
- Dr. Naomi Benford: [meeting Morse after telephoning him] I might have spoken out of turn last night. Prematurely, at least.
- DS Endeavour Morse: How's that?
- Dr. Naomi Benford: I'm afraid my blood was up when I telephoned you.
- DS Endeavour Morse: [sternly] You are aware there's an offence of wasting police time?
- Dr. Naomi Benford: [not budging] No. I'm sorry, but there are professional protocols I'm obliged to observe before I speak freely.
- DS Endeavour Morse: If you have any information regarding what happened on the towpath at New Year, you have a duty to tell the police.
- Dr. Naomi Benford: And, I'm sorry, it's not my story to tell. There are people I have to talk to - well, a person - I'm speaking to them this afternoon.
- DS Endeavour Morse: Right.
- Dr. Naomi Benford: I'm sorry. I can't betray a confidence.