Memorable quotes for
"Due South" Pilot (1994)

Benton Fraser: When I graduated from the Academy, my father gave me one piece of advice. He said always... no, he said never... well, actually he gave me two pieces of advice but I've forgotten the other one but the important one is, never chase a man over a cliff.
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Ray Vecchio: You know we just took out seven guys? One more and you'd qualify for American citizenship.
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Benton Fraser: I don't imagine the death penalty would be an effective deterrent for attempted suicides.
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Benton Fraser: [tossing guy in cell] That's the last time he'll fish over the limit!
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Ray Vecchio: Okay, who let the Mountie into the holding cell?
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Underhill: I talked to the Super at your last job. He suggested transferring you further north.
Benton Fraser: Well, that would put me in Russia, sir.
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Benton Fraser: I guessed. I had a hunch.
Ray Vecchio: No, no, no, no. You don't have hunches. I have hunches.
Benton Fraser: I had one of your hunches, Ray. Felt good.
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[Fraser asks Gerard to give him a transfer to the Canadian Consulate in Chicago so he investigate his father's murder]
Gerard: What was the biggest city you ever worked in?
Benton Fraser: Moosejaw.
Gerard: Yeah, and you were transferred out after five weeks because you couldn't adapt to such an urban life style. You're like your father. Out there in no man's land, there isn't a better cop in the world. But in Chicago, they'd eat you alive in a minute. Sorry.
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Robert Fraser: You're going to shoot a Mountie? They'll hunt you to the ends of the Earth!
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Mrs. Vecchio: [referring to Fraser] He's very nice... so polite.
Ray Vecchio: He's Canadian, Ma.
Mrs. Vecchio: Oh, I thought he was sick or something.
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Benton Fraser: Excuse me, can I have your attention please? Thank you. Anyone carrying illegal weapons if you would place them on the bar. You are under arrest.
[a knife is thrown into the wall near Fraser's head]
Benton Fraser: You realize I'm going to have to confiscate that?
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Ray Vecchio: [Fraser's pistol is unloaded during a gunfight] Who carries an unloaded gun? Would I carry an unloaded gun? Would anyone I know carry an unloaded gun? What do they shoot people with in Canada, serviettes? Does the word "bullets" mean anything to you?
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Underhill: [to Fraser, referring to his father] Everyone says he was the last of a breed. It's not true. You are.
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Ray Vecchio: You know we just took out seven guys? One more and you qualify for American citizenship.
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Fraser: [Diefenbaker is half on, half off Vecchio while the detective is driving the car] He's deaf. You have to speak very loud and very slow and enunciate.
Ray Vecchio: GET-OFF-ME-EXCLAMATION-MARK!
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Capt. Walsh: [Fraser and Ray are standing in Lt. Walsh's office after a gun fight broke out in a bar] One solid oak bar, sixteen tables, twelve chairs, one etched mirror, six by nine, one antique pool table, two doors, thirty-two bottles of liquor, and a Pabst Blue Ribbon neon clock. Does this seem like a fairly accurate list of the damages, Detective Vecchio?
Ray Vecchio: I don't believe the pool table was an antique, sir.
Capt. Walsh: Oh, well we'll never know now, will we? Because all that's left is this bag of felt.
Ray Vecchio: I sought refuge behind the item in question when the suspect pointed a shot gun in my direction and fired repeatedly, sir.
Capt. Walsh: Suspect. I'm glad we finally got around to that because I would hate to think we were responsible for all this damage without a very good reason. You say you identified him by his nose?
Ray Vecchio: Yes, sir.
Capt. Walsh: You didn't say something about his nose, causing him to fire repeatedly into the bar?
Ray Vecchio: Ah, no.
Capt. Walsh: You just felt that his nose was so offensive that you decided to pursue and arrest him?
Ray Vecchio: Captain, the suspect is a known felon and you see, I had this hunch that...
Capt. Walsh: You had a hunch?
[laughs]
Capt. Walsh: A hunch! And you coupled your hunch with with your positive identification of his nose? And this was the basis of your investigation? An investigation which resulted in injury of seven people, three with gun shot wounds, two with broken limbs, one hospitalized with a concussion, and one who claims to have been bitten by a wolf.
Ray Vecchio: The wolf was just trying to help, sir
Capt. Walsh: [Sarcastically] They usually are!
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Benton Fraser: It would have been a party of six.
Herb Lantrell: Brought a bunch of nuns up on a retreat. That help?
Benton Fraser: Not unless they were carrying firearms.
Herb Lantrell: You're sure they were Americans, eh?
Benton Fraser: They were all wearing new boots, they were driving a Jeep Wrangler, and they carried big guns.
Herb Lantrell: Americans it is.
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Ray Vecchio: You know what we just did? We took out seven guys! One more, and you qualify for U.S. citizenship.
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