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Inspector Morse · Season 1, Episode 15

Morse and Tuckerman in “Unfinished Business”

MMorse

Ever heard of Icarus?

TTuckerman

No, why? Did he work for me?

MMorse

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.

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