Marple (TV Series)

The Moving Finger (2006)

Emilia Fox: Joanna Burton

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Quotes 

• Joanna Burton : [to Jerry]  You know, it's striking me as most extraordinary irony that you managed to survive the war with such flying colors yet seem to find the peace so defeating.

• Partridge : I've just heard something terrible, shocking it is.

  Joanna Burton : Don't tell me, the Bring and Buy has been cancelled.

• Jerry Burton : What's that?

  Jerry Burton : [He looks at a photograph]  Unh!

  Joanna Burton : It's a photograph of a diseased spleen. Owen gave it to me.

  Jerry Burton : Was he out of chocolate?

  Joanna Burton : He thought I might be interested. I'm not entirely frivolous, you know.

  Jerry Burton : Pretty ropey, I thought.

  Joanna Burton : Hmmmm. There's something on his mind.

  Jerry Burton : Yes, a rotting spleen perhaps... or you?

• Cardew Pye : Have you met the reverend?

  Jerry Burton : Oh yes.

  Cardew Pye : A being more remote from everyday life I have yet to encounter. He always has his nose buried in Horace or the younger Pliny. He will insist on spouting Latin. I tend more towards the Greek.

  [Suggestively eyeing Jerry Burton] 

  Cardew Pye : And you, Mr Burton? What is your inclination?

  Jerry Burton : [Gulps, unable to speak] 

  Joanna Burton : Head first over the handlebars, eh Jerry?

  Cardew Pye : [Squeals in delightful surprise]  Oh, a tongue with a tang!

• Joanna Burton : [Said often, after being corrected for referring to someone by the wrong name]  That's the one.