Sorry I’m late. Constable Collins asked me to send his apologies. His football game ended in a brawl. He ended up arresting half the opposing team.
“Ruddy Gore” · Season 1, Episode 6
In this episode: Jack Robinson (3), Phryne Fisher (2)
Ah, I wondered when you'd be back.
Did you miss me?
I never get a chance to miss you. It feels as if you're in my office every second day. To what do I owe the pleasure?
A development in our case.
Our case?
I expect the actors let slip about the ghost.
They did. Don’t tell me you suspect the ghost. Might be a little difficult to clap an apparition in iron.
[last lines of the episode]
There is one thing you didn't figure out.
And that is?
My aversion to operetta.
You know I like a mystery. Let me see. [She takes a moment to think.] A bad experience on the stage?
The Pirates of Penzance. [Phryne can't help but laugh.] The reviewer thought my performance as the Major General was…underwhelming.
Why don't you let me judge for myself?
I can't remember a word of it.
Oh what rot! Once you learn one of those patter songs, it's in there for good.
Ah, I'm more of a Shakespeare man.
The stage is yours.
[Jack takes a moment to recall some lines.]
"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale/ Her infinite variety: other women cloy/ The appetites they feed; but she makes hungry/ Where most she satisfies."
[impressed] Perhaps a career in the theatre beckons after all, Inspector.
[smiling wryly] Think I'll stick to crime.
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