Midsomer Murders (TV Series)

A Tale of Two Hamlets (2003)

Anne Reid: Sarah Proudie

Quotes 

• Sarah Proudie : I didn't reject the Bible without reading it first. What sort of woman do you think I am?

• DCI Tom Barnaby : Elsie Pinchel. Is that Danny's mother?

  Sarah Proudie : Mm. She died a couple of weeks ago. A legendary midwife of this parish and a formidable gossip. She'd have answered all your questions whether she knew the answers or not.

• DCI Tom Barnaby : Is the spray can mightier than the sword?

  Sarah Proudie : Well,it doesn't kill people.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : And you're familiar with the Book of Leviticus?

  Sarah Proudie : I didn't reject the Bible without reading it first. What sort of woman do you think I am?

• DCI Tom Barnaby : It looks very different from the book of the film.

  Sarah Proudie : Well, that's because the original is an old-fashioned socialist novel. He calls it "The House of Satan" because he saw the Smythe-Websters as totally corrupt from top to bottom. They took our book and turned it into a cut-price horror movie.

  DCI Tom Barnaby : So you're not one of the world's greatest admirers of the Smythe-Websters, Sarah?

  Sarah Proudie : Everything we have of value they steal. We deal in truth and they deal in power.

• DCI Tom Barnaby : If you hate these people so much...

  Sarah Proudie : Would I consider murdering them?

  [chuckles] 

  Sarah Proudie : No. I'm a card carrying peacenik. Check with MI5, ask them about Sarah Proudie. They'll tell you.

• Sergeant Gavin Troy : Sorry, uh, am I interrupting? I'm looking for the chapel.

  Rupert Smythe-Webster : The smart money says it's the building across the street that looks very much like a chapel.

  Sarah Proudie : And it hasn't been a chapel for 50 years or more. We've never had much time for God in Lower Warden. He doesn't seem to be on our side.