Mac Macmillan quotes from Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Phryne

Now, raise a glass to my new business.

Jack

What kind of business?

Mac

To my oldest friend’s newest enterprise: the Honourable Miss Fisher, lady detective.

Mac

Impatience is your middle name.

Phryne

Virtue was already taken.

Phryne

What's his ailment?

Mac

Bad heart. In every sense of the word.

Phryne

You loved her. And you suffered in silence while I showed you those photos of the blood on the machine.

Mac

What could I have said?

Phryne

The truth would have given me a running start.

Mac

I went to Daisy's funeral service. Her mother came and thanked me for being a good doctor…I was so much more to her than that.

Phryne

Oh, Mac.

Mac

I didn't kill him.

Phryne

How long have we known each other?

Mac

Too bloody long.

Phryne

Then you know there are some things that don't need to be said.

Mac

What have you done to him?

Phryne

[technically telling the truth] Stood him up for another man.

Mac

[skeptical] Oh come on. Cough up.

Phryne

Men. Can't live without them, you can't hit them with an axe.

Mac

You have any idea what this appliance was?

Phryne

I have a fast developing theory. Given what Dot reported on the victim’s neurosis, Doctor Samuels’ controversial reputation, and the victim’s lack of underwear, I’d say an electrical massager.

Jack

A what?

Phryne

A... vibrating machine with a range of applications. [Jack still looks confused.] To various, sometimes delicate parts of the body.

Jack

Oh! Oh, that sort of electrical massager.

Phryne

Oh? Do you know what we’re looking for? Have you seen one before?

Jack

[He nods and then shakes his head slightly.] I was once ordered to raid a brothel in Chinatown that employed all manner of interesting devices.

Phryne

Now that’s a tale I haven’t heard.

Jack

I confess I failed to understand the point of most of them.

Mac

I have a friend who can enlighten you. [She nods towards Phryne and smiles.]

Jack

It was during my cadetship. The whole establishment made a lasting impression.

Mac

Mr Freud would be terrible interested in that.

Phryne

I’m quite interested myself.

So, what exactly are we looking for, sir?

Jack

We’ll discuss that later, Constable.