Funny / Lewis

• Hathaway calls a phone sex line to do a voice match with one of the suspects. Lewis signals him once they have what they need, so Hathaway ends the call in an immediate but unsuspicious way:
  "I have to go. My mother's coming."
• "Expiation".
  • The headmaster's introduction to the school and Lewis's comments during it. "Quite."
    Headmaster Croft: ...you should be entirely confident of the pastoral care that your child would receive here.
    Hathaway: [taking Lewis' hand] Darling, I think you should explain.
  • Laura Hobson's irritated assessment of a not-so-esteemed colleague?
    Hobson: How can I put this with professional integrity? The man's a complete ninny and outstandingly crap at his job.
• "The Quality of Mercy":
  Innocent: And where is the Divine Sergeant today?
  Lewis: High Wycombe.
  Innocent: Oh joy, oh rapture.
• This exchange:
  "I need a drink."
  "You just had a cup of tea."
  "It was herbal."
  "....You do need a drink."
• From "Fearful Symmetry": Hathaway and the baby.
  "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is... somewhat repetitive."
  • Also, any reference to Noo-Noo the "something like a giraffe" baby toy, until the end when it becomes a plot point.
• After a case in which a victim's head was bashed in with a book:
  Lewis: Have you not learned anything from this case? Books are bad for your health!
  Hathaway: Not if you just read them!
• Lewis and Hathaway row a canoe down the river, even though Hathaway is dressed in a suit, while trading insults back and forth.