Tuckerman quotes from Inspector Morse

Wouldn't you think they'd simply jump at the chance to show it abroad. Think of the media blitz there'd be!

This is the time of the high-fliers, Inspector. Only the brain-dead stay on the ground.

Perhaps they're afraid they'll never get it back.

The Frogs got the Mona Lisa back after it'd been to New York.

The Italians didn't.

Ever heard of Icarus?

No, why? Did he work for me?

I meant on your wanderings through antiquity. A mythical figure. The first bird-man. Flew too near the sun. Melted the wax on his wings, fell from the sky, and was drowned. In the Aegean.