Edge of Darkness (TV Mini Series)

Burden of Proof (1985)

Joe Don Baker: Darius Jedburgh

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• Darius Jedburgh : People who put trees and flowers before people, they're beyond reasoning with. You can never appeal to their humanity, because they don't believe in humanity, except as a form of moral pollution.

  Ronald Craven : My daughter never expressed such a view.

  Darius Jedburgh : She probably did, Craven, a dozen times a day, but you never noticed it.

• Darius Jedburgh : Well, the Met picked him up, then they dropped him again... from the sixth floor.

• Darius Jedburgh : People who mess with plutonium are terrorists.

• Harcourt : We're not funded by the M.O.D., but by the Prime Minister's Office.

  Pendleton : And the Arts Council...

  Harcourt : Mr Pendleton has us down as a band of strolling players.

  Pendleton : And the Commonwealth?

  Harcourt : As professional historians...

  Pendleton : And the G.L.C.?

  [Greater London Council] 

  Harcourt : A lesbian co-operative.

  Darius Jedburgh : Frick and frack!

• Darius Jedburgh : I'm here to warn you. You're stirring up the natives. You're making them restless. We have our own interests on this island. Quite apart from the airbases, there's the golf courses.

  Grogan : The golf courses?

  Darius Jedburgh : Don't forget Grogan, I'm a golfer. And when you and your friends are busy in the stadiums, who'll look after the golf courses? It's a question I ask myself every time I address the ball.

  Grogan : Keep talking that way you're not gonna pass your next medical, you know that?

• Darius Jedburgh : Trouble. Right here in River City.