Inspector Lewis (TV Series)
Fearful Symmetry (2012)
Laurence Fox: DS James Hathaway
Photos
Quotes
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DS James Hathaway : [singing to a toddler] 'Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is... ' somewhat repetitive.
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DI Robert Lewis : [Reading from a flyer] 'The Ashmolean presents "Marion Hammond: Fallen" question mark - a meditation on postlapsarian female gender identity.'
DS James Hathaway : Opens this week. I've got tickets.
DI Robert Lewis : The same Marion who left messages on her answering machine?
DS James Hathaway : Professional iconoclast, social-photo anthropologist & cultural pundit.
DI Robert Lewis : Oxford type, eh?
DS James Hathaway : [With quiet emphasis] Oh, yeah.
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DS James Hathaway : [quoting from the Night Keeper comic series] "There's a line between good and evil no wider than a razor's edge"
Silas Whittaker : [finishing the quote] "I hold the line. I am the line"
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DS James Hathaway : What do you actually study here, Dr. Ezrin?
Dr. Joshua Ezrin : The parts of the brain relating to learning - how data is imprinted and stored in the memory. Anything you've ever felt is down to a microscopic variation in the electrochemical balance
[Pointing to his brain]
Dr. Joshua Ezrin : in here. Everything we are - love, hate, anger, jealousy, desire...
DS James Hathaway : Desire?
Dr. Joshua Ezrin : Ah, the need for a mate whereby we can propagate our mitochondrial DNA. It's about as basic an instinct as you can get.
DS James Hathaway : And the soul?
Dr. Joshua Ezrin : Sorry, there is no ghost in the machine. When the machine stops, we stop.
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DS James Hathaway : Maternal Instincts just this side of Medea.
DI Robert Lewis : She's the one that did her kids in right?
DS James Hathaway : [Honestly impressed] Well look at you.
DI Robert Lewis : [Shrugging] Well I never know when you're going to bring a test.
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Dr. Joshua Ezrin : Don't look them directly in the eye.
DS James Hathaway : Great.
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DI Robert Lewis : That launch of his was tethered with a length of polypropylene rope.
DS James Hathaway : Moored. Horses are tethered; boats are moored.