Quotes / The Dog Was the Mastermind

Audio Play

Jade: Please, sir, now the masks have dropped, can we address each other by our proper names? We're no longer John Smith and Jade, his servant. You are my servant, the Master.
Dr John Smith: But then who are you?
Jade: Me, sir? Oh, I'm DEATH.

— Big Finish Doctor Who, "Master"

Literature

"Earthman, the planet you lived on was commissioned, paid for, and run by mice. It was destroyed five minutes before the completion of the purpose for which it was built, and we've got to build another one."
Only one word was registering with Arthur.
"Mice?"

—The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Live-Action TV

"Every cop on this island has been working overtime to help you, and you just kicked every one of them in the teeth. Now they'll have to work double-time to try to prove to the public that they're not all a bunch of killers hiding behind a badge."

— McGarrett in Tranquil Fury to Lew, in Hawaii Five-O, second-season episode "Most Likely to Murder" from 1970

Music

That guy we met in the first fifteen minutes
Will come back cause you know he did it
They're not even trying any more

— Hank Green, "Crime Dramas Suck"

Toys

"No one would ever suspect him, of course. No one ever had. As time passed and things had become clear to him, he had known this time would come. The most powerful would need to be eliminated individually - no point in risking the grand plan because he had missed one, after all - and the rest could be dealt with at leisure. He had expected it to be a time-consuming, if amusing, exercise, a sort of living strategy game in which only he knew the rules."

— The Narrator on Velika, BIONICLE, "The Powers that Be"

Video Games

Vincent: All that hinting that the person who sent me here was close to me, like it was a friend or lover... When it was just The Bartender!
Mutton: Just The Bartender!? I may not look it, but I am a God!

— Catherine

"Hell. Can't believe we got suckered by some road jockey."

—General Oliver, Fallout: New Vegas

Yosuke: It was Adachi.
Teddie: Huh!? Adachi!? That total goofball!?

— Persona 4

Visual Novels

Phoenix: After the explosions at the Space Center, a member of the staff crossed paths with a certain man. The man who was leading the evacuation from the fourth floor... he had a 'very specific objective' in mind. His objective was to secure his own escape route! This is a man you all know. He's even the lead detective on the case... He appears to be a very emotional man, but his psych profile says he is 'without emotion'.
Edgeworth: WHAT?! Are you saying...?!
Apollo: Y-You mean The Phantom is...?!
Judge: D-Detective Bobby Fulbright?!

— Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies

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