Ripper Street (TV Series)
What Use Our Work? (2013)
Matthew Macfadyen: Det. Insp. Edmund Reid
Quotes
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Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : Do you think, Fred, that hanging my American will return your sleep to you? Obsessions are addictions, which may not be defeated by actions in the physical world, but by a change of temper in the mind.
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Captain Homer Jackson : If I could see a way of clearing myself of this, would you grant it to me?
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : Not if it'll involve you leaving this room, Captain.
Captain Homer Jackson : It does not. Just tell me you ain't burned Frank Goodnight.
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[Reid releases Jackson from his cell and hustles him into the Dead Room, where Victor Silver's dead body is lying]
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : I need to know where he's been in the last forty-eight hours. You can tell me.
[Drake drapes an apron over Jackson's neck, un-cuffs his wrists from behind his back, then re-cuffs his wrists in front of him]
Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake : He has Miss Rose under key somewhere.
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : Others as well.
Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake : [holds up a bottle] This was about him.
Captain Homer Jackson : [indicating his handcuffs] You expect me to work like this?
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : Yes, I do! For now, yes!
Captain Homer Jackson : Well, then get him stripped, god damn it!
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Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love?
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[examining Rose's room in the shelter, seeing signs that she has been kidnapped]
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : Sergeant, we are going back to work. Does that suit you?
Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake : Yes, Mr. Reid. It does.
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Emily Reid : [referring to her husband's sleeping at the police station] 'Tis the third night this week you've slept in that cot. Is it more comfortable than it looks?
Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : No, no, I, uh... I am tired, Emily. I would fall asleep on pins.
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Detective Inspector Edmund Reid : [to Abberline about Jackson's arrest as the Ripper] Obsessions are addictions which may not be defeared by actions in the physical world but by a change of temper in the mind.