Inspector Morse (TV Series)

Ghost in the Machine (1989)

Kevin Whately: Detective Sergeant Lewis

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Quotes 

• [arriving at Hanbury House] 

  Chief Inspector Morse : Restored of course - look at that window.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : All that stonework, must take months to do the pointing.

  Chief Inspector Morse : You're not a bloody mason, are you?

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : No such luck - I might have been a Chief Inspector by now if I was.

  Chief Inspector Morse : "Were", Lewis, if you "were". You'll never get on if you can't master your subjunctives. Keep touching your forelock, we may be back in Oxford before lunch.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Shouldn't that be "might"?

• [riding in Morse's car, listening to opera aria] 

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : I liked that, it was good. What was it?

  Chief Inspector Morse : That, Lewis, was Maria Callas.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Was it from "Cats"?

  Chief Inspector Morse : No it most certainly was not.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : The wife wants to go to "Cats". Dunno why, she's allergic to them.

• Detective Sergeant Lewis : [as Lady Hanbury and Dr. Russell leave separately]  Lovely woman, that.

  Chief Inspector Morse : That's not a woman, Lewis, that's a Lady.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Dr. Russell, I mean.

• Mrs. Maltby : Have a ginger biscuit, Sergeant.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Mmm. Lovely.

  Mrs. Maltby : You sure you won't partake, Inspector?

  Chief Inspector Morse : No thank you. Might spoil my lunch.

  [Lewis chokes on his biscuit] 

• Detective Sergeant Lewis : She's here.

  Chief Inspector Morse : Right.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : And she knows he's dead.

  Chief Inspector Morse : Thank God for that. The thing I like least about this job is breaking the bad news.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : I know. That's why you always make me do it.

• Chief Inspector Morse : How did they get back from the school to kill Meadows? I don't see how they had the time.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : She was there when she said she was. I checked with the headmaster.

  Chief Inspector Morse : She can't drive.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Well, she can drive. She just...

  Chief Inspector Morse : Lewis, you've done it.

• Chief Inspector Morse : People like them, they think people like us are only here to keep the servants in order.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Does that mean we have to arrest the butler?

• Dr. Grayling Russell : Sergeant Lewis? Ah, Russell, Dr. Russell.

  [shakes his hand] 

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Where's Max?

  Dr. Grayling Russell : Ah, not too well, actually. Had a stroke. So, where's the body?

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Well, it's in the church, but it's not a pretty sight...

  Dr. Grayling Russell : Oh, already? Saving on undertakers, are they?

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Wait until the Chief Inspector sees you.

• Detective Sergeant Lewis : You think she did it, then?

  Chief Inspector Morse : Still time to find out, although I don't know exactly who did what.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Well, that's never stopped you from making an arrest.

• Chief Inspector Morse : You live in a place like this you think the rules don't apply. Delusions of grandeur. Et ego in Arcadia vixi, Lewis.

  Detective Sergeant Lewis : Oh yeah. What does that mean in English?

  Chief Inspector Morse : It means, more or less, there was a serpent even in the Garden of Eden.

  [pause] 

  Chief Inspector Morse : God, what an inheritance.