I'm sorry it took so long but I rarely get the chance to examine an electrocution victim.
I suspect it will become less rare in the next while.
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Dr. Julia OgdenHélène Joy · 5 quotes
CCCst. Crabtree4 quotes
Most scenes together: Det. Murdoch & Insp. Brackenreid (6), Det. Murdoch & Cst. Crabtree (4), Det. Murdoch & Dr. Julia Ogden (3)
I'm sorry it took so long but I rarely get the chance to examine an electrocution victim.
I suspect it will become less rare in the next while.
How did you know about the stocks, sir?
Intuition.
Really?
Well, I can't bloody well retire on a copper's salary, can I?
Alternating current doesn't need to bribe its way into the future. The forces of logic and history compel it to.
Honest to goodness, how can a police officer be so clumsy?
Well, breaking and entering with grace is not part of my job.
We are men of the future, Detective Murdoch, and what a future it shall be.
Oi, Bugalugs! Shift!
What kind of man delivers a corpse to a police station?
[Reading through a Patent Application]
Corn shards: A breakfast product made up of reconstituted corn pulp meant to be eaten with cold milk.
That sounds revolting.
Coppers don't believe in coincidences.
Sir, you haven't told me why you think Mrs. Robinson is innocent.
Newton's Third Law of Motion, George.
I even had a nickname: Amos the Animal. My wife thought Untamed Beast was more provocative but I confess a weakness for alliteration.
Yes, that's quite a feat to reduce a man to a slogan.
[When a ferret runs up Murdoch's pants leg]
Careful, sir! They're known to bite!
What?!!
Cut off access to your sensitive bits!
There is nothing that exonerates her.
Based on what? Logic? The compendium of evidence?! Well, booger that, Murdoch! You think she's innocent based on nothing but your own intuition!
But of what use is that? Intuition isn't a reliable basis upon which to form an opinion.
What kind of socks am I wearing?
Pardon?
Brown, black or argyle?
I don't know.
Well, guess!
Argyle. Sir, what kind of socks are you wearing?
[Pulls up his pant leg to reveal argyle socks] You should learn to trust your intuition, me ol' mucker!
Murdoch, I know that you take great personal pride in having just two speeds: slow and dead slow.
[Murdoch and Crabtree are in the station house yard, preparing to undertake an experiment to determine blood spatter by having George shoot a pig’s carcass at close range.]
Constable Crabtree (being buttoned into a dress): That’s a bit snug in the bosom, Sir.
Away you go.
Will there be much spatter, Sir?
That’s what we’re here to find out. Hurry up! Shoot! The blood is draining from the pig’s flanks.
Constable Crabtree (hesitating): It’s staring at me, Sir.
George, the animal is dead. There’s no spirit left in the body.
Constable Crabtree (obviously stalling): Do pigs have a soul then, Sir?
NOW, GEORGE!!
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