Broadchurch Quotes

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Paul: You just going to stand and watch?
Mark: You think I"m being weird.
Paul: It might be a bit weird.

Maggie: For God's sake, Mark! Sorry, Paul. Look, I understand you regret [doing the book] now, but skulking in the bushes watching isn't going to help. Tell him, will you?
Paul: I have been for the past half hour.

Bryan: Exterior scene, middle of nowhere, open to the elements. We're already two days behind before we've even started.
Alec: The first thing we need is to confirm the blood traces found on the stones match Trish Winterman's.
Bryan: Is this where she was knocked unconscious?
Alec: We don't have that information yet. More likely somewhere by the house.
Bryan: So the scene could be from here all the way up to the house? Well, you don't like to make things easy for us, do you?
Alec: Sorry for inconveniencing you.
Ellie: We can't find any obvious drag marks or footprints. You might have more luck. And see if you can find any evidence of her attacker having had a hiding place near the house.
Bryan: Right you are.
Alec: We got preliminary fragments of blue twine or wire from the victim's wrist wounds. I want to know if you find any of that. And she was struck in the back of the head so we're looking for anything that might have been used for the blow.
Bryan: Violent attack, ligature traces, possible use of a condom - it starts to look like it was premeditated.
Alec: How about you do your dusting and you leave us to sort the conclusions out?
Ellie: I think you should say sorry to Bryan.
Alec: Sorry, Bryan.
Bryan: And you wonder why we call him shitface.

Alec: Can I ask you a question, Miller?
Ellie: Course.
Alec: How long have they been calling me shitface?
Ellie: Since you first arrived.
Alec: Really?
Ellie: Yeah.

Katie: I was just asking a question.
Ellie: Alright. You're new. We forgive you.

Edited April 18, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Ellie: Where were you on Saturday night, Leo?
Leo: I was out with my girlfriend. We had a few drinks and then a kebab on the way home.
Ellie: Ah, romantic.

Alec: You let that boy affect your naturally optimistic disposition, Miller.
Ellie: I'm never in the mood for swaggering young shits.

Ellie: I found my mum's vibrator when I was 12.
Beth: No, you didn't!
Ellie: I asked her what it was for.
Beth: What did she say?
Ellie: She said it was a whisk and "Don't tell dad."

Trish: I feel so ashamed. I wish he'd just killed me.

Alec: How do you do it, Miller? The whole single parent thing.
Ellie: By constantly absorbing feelings of failure, guilt, and shame.

Mark: You can't just call me to come meet you for coffee like everything's still the same.
Beth: Can't I?
Mark: No. You know you can treat me like your little dog. Give me a whistle and I'll come running, but I need you not to do that. I need you not to give me any hope.

Paul: Maggie, is everything alright?
Maggie: I'm feeling murderous. I thought this place might restore my equanimity.
Paul: Is it working?
Maggie: Not in the slightest.

Paul: People look to God when they need something.

Mark: We should have just thrown [Joe Miller] over that cliff when we had the chance.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Katie: [Alec] doesn't like me, does he?
Ellie: It's not about you.

Paul: How are you doing? You all right?
David: Me? I'm sleeping in my daughter's box room while she works herself to death. It's the retirement I always dreamed of.
Paul: You must still be grieving yourself.
David: I just carry on with it. Can't change it.
Paul: If you want to talk-
David: No, no, thank you, vicar. I'm not into all that bull shit. No offense.

Paul: Porn on your phones - really?

Musician: I've never been asked for a DNA swab before. That's quite cool.

Alec: [Is your band] any good?
Musician: Yeah. Why? Do you want to book us?
Alec: No.

Ellie: You look terrible.
Alec: Just leave me alone and eat your stupid Scotch egg.

Alec: I'm not good at that sort of stuff.
Ellie: What? You mean people? Human relationships?

Alec: You know what's bothering me about this case? It's making me ashamed to be a man.

[mledawn]

34 minutes ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:

Alec: [Is your band] any good?
Musician: Yeah. Why? Do you want to book us?
Alec: No.

This. I actually laughed out loud at that and thought during the show, "There's a quote for the forum!"

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Alec: Three years for the rape of a woman at a budget motel. Victim was tied to the bed and gagged.
Ellie: Well he sounds like a delight. Can't wait to meet him.

Aaron: It was a woman in her fifties. Did you not even look at the details of my case?
Ellie: Fussy about age, are you?
Aaron: I served my sentence. I'm entitled to a fresh start.
Alec: No, you're on parole which means you're still doing your time.
Ellie: And what about the woman you raped? Did she get a fresh start?
Aaron: If you're interested in the truth, the girl was as pissed as I was.
Ellie: Girl? How old was she?
Aaron: Twenty seven.
Ellie: Woman then.

Ellie: Like tying her up.
Aaron: Yeah, I did tie her up. I like to play. So what? There's nothing abnormal about it. Everyone's reading Fifty Shades of Grey on the bus. I'm not a rapist.
Ellie: Well, according to a jury you are.
Aaron: Well, juries get things wrong, don't they?

Ellie: [Aaron] certainly lived down to expectations.

Ellie: Did you get a good night's sleep?
Alec: No. You?
Ellie: I dreamt I was at Axehampton lying next to the waterfall.
Alec: All right. We should probably go home our regular hours tonight.
Ellie: Wow, was that you doing Supportive Bart?
Alec: Yeah. No good?
Ellie: Awful.

Ellie: Could you describe your marriage to us, Cath?
Cath: That's relevant, is it?
Ellie: I don't know. That's why I'm asking.
Cath: I'd describe it as loveless. Will that do?
Ellie: Can you expand on that a little?
Cath: No, I think that pretty much sums it up.

Ellie: You all right? It's not like you, clocking off after only twelve hours.

Zoe: I'm quite nervous. Are you?
Alec: Yeah.
Zoe: Thank you for saying that. Men don't normally say that.
Alec: Don't they? It's a bit daunting. My daughter helped me with the profiles.
Zoe: You got kids? That wasn't on there.
Alec: Isn't it?
Zoe: No.
Alec: Oh, shit. Sorry. My daughter set me up.
Zoe: So she did all the swiping?
Alec: No, I mean, I chose you based on your...eh, that is to say - you look really nice.

Ellie: What are you doing out?
Alec: I'm walking home.
Ellie: What, back from your cheeky date?
Alec: No.
Ellie: Oh, look at your face! You totally are!
Alec: Shut up, Miller.
Ellie: Is she nice?
Alec: I'm walking home.
Ellie: Did you kiss her?

Jim: You think that I raped a woman at my own wife's birthday party?
Alec: Did you?
Jim: No. I wouldn't.

Jim: Saturday morning, the day of the party, Trish and me, we were in bed together.
Ellie: On the morning of your wife's birthday.

Alec: You're now admitting to sending this text to [Ian's] wife?
Sarah: Ex-wife.
Alec: Not yet.

Mark: I've been looking everywhere for you.
Paul: When you say "everywhere," do you mean the church?
Mark: Yeah.
Paul: They do sometimes allow me outside the exclusion zone.
Mark: A vicar with a sense of humor. You should advertise. What are you doing tomorrow?
Paul: Are you genuinely asking for a list of my appointments?
Mark: No, but do you think you can move them?

Edited March 21, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[mledawn]

1 hour ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:

Alec: You're now admitting to sending this text to [Ian's] wife?
Sarah: Ex-wife.
Alec: Not yet.

Mark: I've been looking everywhere for you.
Paul: When you say "everywhere," do you mean the church?
Mark: Yeah.
 

 

These were the two that really stood out for me. Tennant plays crusty sooooo well - that "Not yet" was fantastic.

Paul's response to Mark literally had me bark out a laugh. Poor Paul - it was nice to see him have a conversation with that sad wife of the cabbie.

[staveDarsky]

9 hours ago, ElectricBoogaloo said:

Aaron: Yeah, I did tie her up. I like to play. So what? There's nothing abnormal about it. Everyone's reading Fifty Shades of Grey on the bus. I'm not a rapist.

Ellie: Well, according to a jury you are.
Aaron: Well, juries get things wrong, don't they?

 

Alec: All right. We should probably go home our regular hours tonight.
Ellie: Wow, was that you doing Supportive Bart?
Alec: Yeah. No good?
Ellie: Awful.

 

The first one sounded like a dig against Ellie about Joe. I've seen speculation Creepy Aaron's met Joe, though the timeline is off.

I think Ellie said "supportive boss".

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Alec: Aaron, can you clarify for us where you were on this past Saturday night between approximately 10pm and 5am?
Aaron: I was fishing.
Alec: Where were you fishing?
Aaron: Off the beach.
Alec: Which beach?
Aaron: The one next to the sea.

Trish: I'm finding it quite hard that everyone seems to know now.
Cath: Nobody's judging you.
Trish: Why would they be judging me?
Cath: ...Well, no, that's what I'm saying. They're not judging you.

Cath: You know what your weakness is? You're stupid but you think you're smart. That's a very difficult position. I could set fire to your life whenever I choose. If I were you, I'd be shitting myself right now.

Katie: First and foremost, [Aaron]'s lying about Saturday night. No mackeral in the fridge or freezer. His wife doesn't like them. They never have them in the house.
Alec: Why would he lie about that? He must know he's going to get found out.
Katie: Doesn't exactly present like an innocent man, does he?
Alec: Just because he's an arsehole doesn't mean he's a rapist.

Ed: Your husband's a knob, but that's not your fault.

Cath: I just thought my life would be that I would love someone and they'd  love me back and it would last my whole life. Why is that so much to ask?

Clive: That is classic. Breakdown lorry broken down!

Jim: Do you know who you're talking to? Do you know how many people I know in this town?
Clive: Not really.

Ellie: Parenting - it's all one constant slap around the head.

Edited April 18, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Ellie: Typical. A woman gets attacked and all the men go around battering horns, making it about them.

Katie: You've never liked me, have you, Ellie?
Ellie: Actually I was starting not to mind you. Against all the odds, you swanned in with no training. You thought you knew it all, and yeah, my hackles were up because I had to work so hard to get into CID, so bloody hard. I took so much shit back then. You have no idea. And because I was new, because I was a woman, I fought all the battles you now benefit from. People like you wander into CID with six months' experience, sod all training, and you think you own the world. Well, that lack of training and that lack of experience is exactly what caused this.
Katie: It was an innocent mistake.
Ellie: No, it was a stupid basic page one mistake. And more than that, it was selfish. You wanted to believe [your father] had nothing to do with [Trish's rape] and so you did. The one thing a decent police officer and certainly decent detective can never be is selfish.

Leah: It's supposed to be you parenting me, not the other way around.

Joe: I'm only here because I'm not brave enough to kill myself.

Ellie's father: I saw you on the news earlier. You looked terrible.
Tom: Is it true that other women might have been attacked?
Ellie: Yeah, it's possible.
Ellie's father: You ask me, everyone's been raped or abused, one or the other.
Ellie: No one is asking you, dad.
Ellie's father: Am I not allowed to have an opinion?
Ellie: No.
Ellie's father: Oh.
Ellie: You understand about consent?
Tom: Mum, do we have to talk about this?
Ellie: Yeah, we do. It's important. I'm not having you think what granddad's saying is acceptable.

Mark: I can't live with what you've done to us but I'm not strong enough to make you pay. It's pathetic, isn't it?

Ed: I've told you how I feel about [Trish]. It's not against the law.
Ellie: No, being in love isn't but stalking is.

Alec: You're basically an obsessive loser with a short fuse, aren't you, Ed?

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Alec: [Daisy] wants to go. I've asked her not to. I've begged her not to.
Ellie: Know what I'd do? Take her ticket, tear it up, pop it in my pocket, go to work, done.
Alec: I can't do that.
Ellie: Well, I can.

Alec: What time was this?
Ed: Funny thing, when I was on my ass in the mud, I didn't think to check my watch.
Alec: Can I make a wee suggestion, Ed? Lay off the smartass replies.

Ellie: It's supposition.
Alec: It's investigation! I'm theorizing!

Maggie: To the side of a story about rape, you're running a sidebar of women in bikinis and then promoting stories about the ten hottest WAGs and weather girls.

Maggie: For God's sake, Caroline, how can you call yourself a feminist and let this pass?
Caroline: I don't call myself a feminist.
Maggie: Please tell me you're not the future.

[horn honks]
Alec: SHUT UP! POLICE!

Alec: Any of you come near, in fact, if you even talk to, no, no, you even talk about my daughter ever again, let alone do anything to make her unhappy, I will find you and I will cut your tiny little cocks off.

Ellie: You seem much happier. What happened with Daisy?
Alec: I tore up her ticket.
Ellie: You took my advice?
Alec: Know what I realized, Miller?
Ellie: What?
Alec: I'm too nice to people.
Ellie: No, uh.
Alec: Never works, being nice. Done with that.

Alec: They're all coming out of the woodwork now, eh? We've got all these people in the middle of a vise. You keep turning, you keep applying the pressure, sooner or later they crack. It's just a matter of time.
Ellie: Right. Thanks for that, Confucius. If that's the case, why are you so angsty all the time?
Alec: You never bloody know when it's going to happen or how long it's going to take. That's what drives you mad!

Beth: I sat there in the hospital and I'm listening to everything [Mark] has to say and it takes all my training, all the skills I've learned to just not punch him in the face. I'm so angry with him. He has two daughters, one of whom is barely three years old. How can he do this to them? He knows what loss feels like, what it rips out of you.
Paul: You were right to go gentle on him. He's hurting.
Beth: We're all hurting. I'm hurting. You're hurting. The whole bloody world's hurting. But he has to make it about him. He takes all the oxygen, all the attention. "Look at me. I'm Mark Latimer and I'm so much sadder than the rest of you." And you know what that does? It leaves no room for me. No space for me. He crowds out my grief, and my grief, my ongoing daily pain is as strong and alive as his, but I don't let it win. He is selfish and weak. Part of me wishes he'd succeeded. And we're left to clear it up, his family, like always, and I'm sick of it.

Maggie: As the Americans say, screw you, petal.

Ellie: So you left the preparations of your wife's fiftieth birthday party to go and buy condoms so you could have sex with one of the waitresses.
Jim: She was flirting with me as soon as she saw me.

Katie: You were stalking a woman who's been raped.
Ed: It's not like that.
Katie: Well, it's never like that, is it? It's never your fault.

Ian: How are you doing? Or is that a stupid question?
Trish: It's pretty stupid, yeah.

Edited April 11, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[staveDarsky]

Also, Hardy asking the waitress "What's a DILF?" Even funnier because under all that scraggly beard is David Tennant.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Hardy: What was it? The power? Knowing you have [your passengers' keys]? Knowing you can use them  if you want? Have you ever used them? Let yourself into someone's house?
Clive: I'm not that sort of man.
Hardy: Oh, I think you are.

Hardy: I still enjoy those moments when some cocky bastard trashes their own alibi without realizing it.

Hardy: You want us to believe you see a suspicious bag inside one of your sheds, you pick it up leaving your fingerprints and DNA, scratch around inside, OH! Blood stained twine - I'll fiddle with that too.

Hardy: Very good, Miller. You should do this for a living.

Miller: You have got to stop lying because you are not very good at it.

[mledawn]

The best part about Hardy going off on Ed about touching the twine is that KATIE TOUCHED IT TOO!

I loved the lying line to Clive, after we heard his wife say the same.

[auntiemel]

On 3/28/2017 at 5:44 AM, ElectricBoogaloo said:

Cath: You know what your weakness is? You're stupid but you think you're smart. That's a very difficult position. I could set fire to your life whenever I choose. If I were you, I'd be shitting myself right now.

I'm going to memorize this and it's going to be my standard retort from now on!

Edited April 20, 2017 by auntiemel

[Voice of Joy]

I'm in the US so I'm not reading above because I haven't seen all of S3, but so far in S3 this one stands out to me:

 

"I've figured out what's bothering me about this case.   It makes me ashamed to be a man."  

(I do so love grumpy Hardy)

[smorbie]

I quit reading because I think some of these are from shows that haven't aired yet and I don't want to be spoiled.

But, I do want to add my own quote.

 

Hardy:  MILLAHHHH

[Voice of Joy]

Hardy's rant at the skeevy boys in S3E7 is epic:

"You boys, you wee babies....you hurt my girl.  So from now on, I'm gonna be watching everything you do.  I'm gonna watching everything your parents do, everything your family does.  And if any one of you even so much as belch when you shouldn't, I will be there."

"Are you threatening us?"

"No son, I'm instructing you.  Do you know what I do in my job, do ya?  I deal with murderers, and brutal thugs, and sex offenders.  And I win.  I get the better of them, so don't for a second imagine I will break a sweat getting you in line.  Any you come near...you even talk... no..no, you even talk about my daughter, ever again, let alone do anything to make her unhappy, I will find you, and I will cut your tiny little cocks off.

"You can't say that, you're the police."

"I'm  a father.  And I will do whatever is necessary to protect my daughter.  Now piss off."

[smorbie]

Hardy:  My problem is that I'm too nice!

Millahh:  (very quietly) no...that's...not...