Midsomer Murders (TV Series)
The Sicilian Defence (2013)
Neil Dudgeon: DCI John Barnaby
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Quotes
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[last lines]
DCI John Barnaby : "Grieving may be universal, but we must express it in our own unique way".
DS Ben Jones : Sigmund Freud.
[revealing that it was a quotation from his own university thesis "The Birth of Grief, Memory and Loss in Human Evolution"]
DCI John Barnaby : John Barnaby, 1988, Durham University.
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DS Ben Jones : The Robsons moved here in the 90s when Alan Robson hit it big.
DCI John Barnaby : What's his line?
DS Ben Jones : Computers. He developed a chess game called Knight To King. Made millions.
DCI John Barnaby : Clever man, then.
DS Ben Jones : More like a geek.
DCI John Barnaby : The geek shall inherit the earth!
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[first lines]
DCI John Barnaby : [holding sombreros] Remember these?
Sarah Barnaby : [laughs] I try hard not to.
DCI John Barnaby : 1996, we bought these in Puerto Vallarta; you wore a red dress.
Sarah Barnaby : Los Cabos, and the dress was blue.
DCI John Barnaby : [to Sykes] Least I got the year right.
DCI John Barnaby : [follows Sarah outside] We went dancing in these.
Sarah Barnaby : Yeah, that's Tequina for you. Right. Boxes are for charity, bags are for recycling; so, take your pick.
DCI John Barnaby : You can't give these to charity.
Sarah Barnaby : No, you're right; no-one's that desperate. Recycling it is then.
DCI John Barnaby : Well, have you no heart, woman? These are part of our history, our memories.
Sarah Barnaby : These are ten dollar sombreros.
DCI John Barnaby : Exactly; they weren't cheap. Now come on, put this on. Do your Clint.
Sarah Barnaby : I'm not doing my Clint.
DCI John Barnaby : Come on, do your Clint; you know you want to.
Sarah Barnaby : [mimicking Eastwood] "In this world there's two kinds of people, my friend; those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."
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Sarah Barnaby : My dad disapproved of John when he first met him.
DCI John Barnaby : Until I won him over with my charm.
Sarah Barnaby : He took him to the pub and got the poor man drunk.
DCI John Barnaby : Very low alcohol tolerance, bless him.
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DCI John Barnaby : To be young and in love, eh.
DS Ben Jones : Couple of months they'll be nagging each other like the rest of us.
DCI John Barnaby : So cynical!
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DCI John Barnaby : Let's talk about the night Finn disappeared. Were you angry when your wife told you that he was leaving with Harriet?
Alan Robson : Was I angry, now let me see... my son was throwing away his future, everything I'd built for him for some simpering village girl.
DS Ben Jones : We'll take that as a yes then.
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Kate Wilding : [describing the shape of the murder wound, and what the weapon might have been] The degree of taper suggests long and thin.
DCI John Barnaby : That narrows it down.
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DCI John Barnaby : Why do you like chess so much?
Jamie Carr : Chess is beautiful. Every game starts the same, but they all end up in different places.
DCI John Barnaby : Infinite possibilities.
Jamie Carr : Beautiful.
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DCI John Barnaby : Were you angry when your wife told you he was leaving with Harriet?
Alan Robson : Was I angry? Now, let me see. My son was throwing away his future, everything I built for him for some simpering village girl!
DCI John Barnaby , Alan Robson , DS Ben Jones : We'll take that as a yes, then.
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DS Ben Jones : What do you think made her flip out?
DCI John Barnaby : She's lost the love of her life, and she's not been allowed to mourn him - not publicly anyway.
DS Ben Jones : And modern psychology says that's a bad thing, right?
DCI John Barnaby : Nothing modern about it. We've been expressing grief since we climbed down from the trees.