Inspector Lewis (TV Series)

Expiation (2007)

Kevin Whately: DI Robert Lewis

Quotes 

• DI Robert Lewis : Doctor, you bring me all this because you secretly love me.

  Dr. Laura Hobson : If I bring you anything at all, Lewis, you cocky sod, it's because I secretly love Hathaway.

• Malcolm Croft : [shaking Lewis and Hathaway's hands]  Malcolm Croft, Headmaster. Now, look, the first thing I want you to be absolutely clear about is that here at Parktown, we are a very broad church.

  DI Robert Lewis : Glad to hear it.

  Malcolm Croft : We have 14 Muslims in the school and 32 children of mixed parentage. I do feel it's important to foreground this.

  DI Robert Lewis : [bell rings]  Quite.

  Malcolm Croft : You should be entirely confident of the pastoral care your child will receive here.

  DS James Hathaway : [to Lewis, taking his hand]  Darling, I think you should explain.

• DI Robert Lewis : What's the matter with you? Been crying?

  DS James Hathaway : I always cry when I know I'm going to spend the day with you, Sir.

• DI Robert Lewis : Hathaway, find me some dead people!

  DS James Hathaway : Sir?

  DI Robert Lewis : Crime! Now! Or I shall discharge. And it won't be a pretty sight.

• [Lewis is questioning Le Plassiter who is barely conscious and very close to death] 

  DI Robert Lewis : Don't pretend to be dead: it's bad manners and it won't work!

• Edward le Passiter : Why are you here?

  [He asks Hathaway before continuing] 

  Edward le Passiter : Oh don't tell me. It's because Lewis is afraid I might use words with more than two syllables.

  DI Robert Lewis : Yea, you already said syllable I might have to lie down.

• Ch. Supt. Innocent : [Innocent sternly admonishes Lewis]  You get this sorted, Lewis. You and Boy bloody Wonder. You do it right now and without the slightest trace of impropriety, or I will have you back in a tall hat pedalling a pushbike before you can say "Where's my pension?" Have you got that?

  DI Robert Lewis : The gist, ma'am. Absolutely.

• Malcolm Croft : I can't believe this is happening.

  DI Robert Lewis : I've met stranger people in stranger places.

• DI Robert Lewis : Dr. Edward Le Plassiter. Regius Professor of Jurisprudence. You know what that means?

  DS James Hathaway : The moral integrity of the law. Whether ir not it has any.

  DI Robert Lewis : It means he's a stonking great cheese.