Jonathan Creek (TV Series)

Black Canary (1998)

Alan Davies: Jonathan Creek

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• Maddy Magellan : I just thought I could be useful to you tonight, that's all.

  Jonathan Creek : What as? A contraceptive?

• [when walking into the theater and seeing Adam in a frog costume] 

  Adam Klaus : Jonathan, good morning! Lovely day, isn't it?

  Jonathan Creek : What the - ? What the *hell* is going on here? Am I in the right theater?

  Adam Klaus : Hard to believe, isn't it, what a gifted designer can come up with in just 24 hours? But I'm sure you'll agree Elsa has outdone herself.

  Elsa : Well, I try not to give you just any old "frog coat". Always for Adam, something a bit special, yes?

  Jonathan Creek : [to himself]  *Frock*/Frog Coat...

• Jonathan Creek : So this is it, is it? Through the swirling fog of Victorian London a young girl is slashed to ribbons by Toad of Toad Hall!

• [when getting rid of a cockroach] 

  Maddy Magellan : Take it to the bottom of the garden and kill it with a spade!

  Jonathan Creek : Kill it with a spade? What am I? Jack "the Hat" McVitie?

• Jonathan Creek : Marella Carney, "The Black Canary", a life-long claustrophobic. I told you that her twin sister, Beryl, was the one who had to go inside the boxes. Yet Marella has been travelling in a lift the size of a pencil case. Coupled together with that suicide note...

  Maddy Magellan : When she just put a kiss?

  Jonathan Creek : Why didn't she sign it? Why didn't she put 'Marella' or 'Mother' or something like that? I think we can safely assume, at the time of her death, the moment of confrontation, she couldn't bring herself to lie... about who she really was.

  [long pause as Maddy thinks about it] 

  Maddy Magellan : Oh, you top man, Jonathan! It wasn't Beryl at the end of that buzz saw, it was her sister! All these years Marella Carney wasn't Marella Carney at all. That explains everything.

  Jonathan Creek : No, it explains nothing.