Endeavour (TV Series)

Confection (2019)

Simon Harrison: DCI Ronnie Box

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• Dr. Max DeBryn : [surveying the corpse of Murray Creswell]  As far as injuries are concerned, a single circular wound, about half an inch in diameter, to the base of the skull.

  DCI Ronnie Box : Shot, then, surely?

  DS Endeavour Morse : No. There's no starburst pattern, which one would expect to find from a discharge at point-blank range.

  Dr. Max DeBryn : Yes, quite. It could have been done with any number of pointed instruments.

  DS Alan Jago : Such as?

  Dr. Max DeBryn : Oh, a spiked bayonet; medieval misericord; rondel dagger; the Japanese sai. The only thing one can pronounce with any certainty at this juncture is that he came to a sticky end.

• Sarah Clamp : There's more to life than just money.

  DCI Ronnie Box : You know who thinks like that, Miss Clamp? The rich.

  Sarah Clamp : I'm not rich.

  DI Fred Thursday : But you will be.

• DCI Ronnie Box : [bribing Thursday]  You're a good man, Fred, same as my old man. He did nearly thirty years in a blue uniform. Two months shy of his pension, going after a couple of safecrackers, he went through a skylight. Fell thirty-five feet on to the concrete and broke his back. Know what he got for his trouble? A watch and a chain. The watch stopped working after a fortnight. And, six months later, so did he.

• DCI Ronnie Box : [inducing Thursday to take a bribe]  A man's got his dignity, Fred, or he's nothing. It don't make you a bad copper. It just makes you a smart one.