Inspector Lewis (TV Series)

Fearful Symmetry (2012)

Kevin Whately: DI Robert Lewis

Quotes 

• DI Robert Lewis : Actually, Mrs. Addams, it was you we wanted to see if you don't mind. I would quite like a word.

  Honey Addams : [Walking while holding 2 year-old Josh]  I was just about to get Joe down, so...

  DI Robert Lewis : That's all right. Sergeant Hathaway will keep an eye. He is good with kids. Used to be one himself.

• DI Robert Lewis : [Reading from a flyer]  'The Ashmolean presents "Marion Hammond: Fallen" question mark - a meditation on postlapsarian female gender identity.'

  DS James Hathaway : Opens this week. I've got tickets.

  DI Robert Lewis : The same Marion who left messages on her answering machine?

  DS James Hathaway : Professional iconoclast, social-photo anthropologist & cultural pundit.

  DI Robert Lewis : Oxford type, eh?

  DS James Hathaway : [With quiet emphasis]  Oh, yeah.

• DS James Hathaway : Maternal Instincts just this side of Medea.

  DI Robert Lewis : She's the one that did her kids in right?

  DS James Hathaway : [Honestly impressed]  Well look at you.

  DI Robert Lewis : [Shrugging]  Well I never know when you're going to bring a test.

• Marion Hammond : Then a couple of months ago I met someone. We were together for a while.

  DI Robert Lewis : So what happened?

  Marion Hammond : Well, he started making those 'I want to stick around' signals, and...

  DI Robert Lewis : And that's a bad thing?

  Marion Hammond : For me, yes. I'm not good with tomorrow.

• DI Robert Lewis : [to Marion]  I did three years in vice in Newcastle before I came down. That tends to knock the choirboy out of the soul.

• Marion Hammond : [Looking admiringly at a provocative photo of Bess]  Beautiful body!

  [to Lewis] 

  Marion Hammond : I suppose 'body' means something entirely different to you. What's that like, being surrounded by dead people all the time?

  DI Robert Lewis : It's... a living.

• DI Robert Lewis : That launch of his was tethered with a length of polypropylene rope.

  DS James Hathaway : Moored. Horses are tethered; boats are moored.