Quotes
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PC Jim Strange : [untying Faye in a loft] Don't worry, Miss Madison. You're safe now.
DC Endeavour Morse : [entering the loft] Where's Cronyn?
Faye Madison : He told me not worry and went off.
DS Peter Jakes : [appearing at the top of the ladder] You got her? She all right?
PC Jim Strange : No harm.
DS Peter Jakes : [looking around] Where's Inspector Thursday?
DC Endeavour Morse : [realizing] Scarpia.
PC Jim Strange : Morse?
DC Endeavour Morse : [realizing] Oh... Miss Madison isn't the final victim. This isn't Cronyn's plan. I've made a mistake.
DS Peter Jakes : F! F for Faye, though!
DC Endeavour Morse : It's not Faye. It's Fred. Fred Thursday.
[Thursday stands on one of the quad rooftops and Cronyn/Gull appears behind him]
Dr. Daniel Cronyn : Well, here's a how'd you do.
DI Fred Thursday : [seriously] Where is she?
Dr. Daniel Cronyn : Oh, quite safe. The proverbial sprat, and you the mackerel. How else do you imagine I got you up here? When it comes to a damsel in distress the boys in blue can always by relied upon to act predictably.
[Philip plays his recital on a piano in the main hall as Morse access a rooftop and edges his way along a narrow ledge to get to the roof Thursday and Cronyn/Gull are on]
DI Fred Thursday : I thought it was Tosca goes off the roof?
Dr. Daniel Cronyn : In Act Three yes, but it's Act Two I've always had in mind. The death of Scarpia - the corrupt and venal chief of police - at Tosca's hand.
[Cronyn/Gull takes out a knife]
Dr. Daniel Cronyn : I'm afraid the parts are already cast. I've got nothing against you personally. You simply stand in place of the detective inspector whose lies put me away.
DI Fred Thursday : [realizing] Foxley.
Dr. Daniel Cronyn : It should've been him up here with me today. But he died while I was... away.
DI Fred Thursday : [prepared] Well, what are you waiting for?
Dr. Daniel Cronyn : An audience. What else?
DI Fred Thursday : Where does Morse fit into all this? Got to be about more than torment. You could've killed him at the Bodleian. Why didn't you?
Dr. Daniel Cronyn : Beethoven had his Schindler. Haydn his Griesinger. Every great artist needs a biographer. Someone to bear witness to his greatness and set it down for posterity. How does it feel... to be my crowning achievement? Five's a good number, don't you think? Nice and simple. Count 'em on one hand.
DI Fred Thursday : You're going to keep this up, I wouldn't mind a draw on my pipe if it's all the same.
