The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (TV Series)

The Seed of Cunning (2005)

Nathaniel Parker: Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley

Quotes 

• Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley : [to Havers]  When we get to Black Rod's office, please, don't ask the obvious question!

• Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers : I've joined one of those dating agencies.

  Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley : Really?

  Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers : What?

  Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley : Just... really?

• Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley : Let not the cross bind you to sin.

  Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers : What is that, the Bible?

  Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley : Experience.

• Sergeant Barbara Havers : Well, I should get going.

  Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley : [bitterly]  Yeah, yeah. Can't keep your latest beau waiting, can we?

  Sergeant Barbara Havers : [taken aback]  Um, no. Goodnight, sir.

• Simon Featherstonehaugh : How's the investigation going?

  Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley : We're making progress.

  Simon Featherstonehaugh : Dirty work. But someone's got to do it.

  Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley : Could say the same for you.

  Simon Featherstonehaugh : Idealism is the despot of thought, Tommy.

  Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley : As politics is the despot of will, to complete the Bakunian quotation.

  Simon Featherstonehaugh : [laughs]  You always had a retentive memory.