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  • In the pilot, Thursday and Morse are interrogating a suspect who's bought off most of the force and won't cooperate. Thursday tells Morse that he forgot his tobacco in the car, and tells him to go get it for him. By the time Morse returns, the suspect has had a sudden change of heart. And a sudden nosebleed.
  • In the pilot, Morse shows the crossword puzzles to his superiors and claims that the girl they're looking for is somewhere near Bagley Wood. Everyone but Thursday scoffs. Enter another constable, who tells them that they just found a body in Bagley Wood.
  • In "Trove," Thursday meets some low-level baddies who've just given Morse a brutal beating.
    Thursday: You and your pal had a rare old time at the expense of one of mine. Suppose you could tell me what that was all about.
    Mallory: Suppose we don't.
  • In "Sway," Morse notices an odd symbol on the wall where a murder has been committed.
    Morse: It's the mathematical symbol for infinity.
    Jakes: Or it's an eight that's had one too many.
    • Made all the funnier later on when it does turn out to be an eight...
  • The conversation between Tommy Cork and Bright in "Neverland":
    Bright: Hasn't anyone ever told you? The policeman is your friend.
    Tommy: That's not what my dad says.
    Bright: Oh?
    Tommy: No. He says you're bastards.
  • The encounter with Marcus X in "Colours", when he insists on first-name terms...
    Fred Thursday: Well, if we're going on first names, I'm Fred. And this is, err, Morse.
    • At the beginning of the episode, a protestor throws flour on the racist Lady Bayswater and then cries: "White enough now, eh?!"
  • In "Raga", Thursday is somewhat surprised to discover that not only do some of Adam Sloan's fellow wrestlers know about his homosexuality, they're fine with it. Sloan responds: "I don't know if you've noticed, but we get paid to roll about with blokes wearing only our underpants."
  • In Canticle, Mrs Joy Pettybon is complaining about the frequency of bad language on television:
    Mrs Pettybon: We counted fourteen 'bloodys', six 'bleedings' - what else, Bettina?
    Bettina: Um, two 'bleeders' and a 'bastard'.
    Thursday: Sounds like a regular evening down the nick.

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