Ludwig Quotes

You’re going back in there?[Lucy Betts-Taylor]I have to. It’s a puzzle. Puzzles are meant to be solved.[John Taylor]

You won’t have to talk to anybody.[Lucy Betts-Taylor]Really?! And if they talk to me?[John Taylor]Well, just stick to small talk. Just keep walking.[Lucy Betts-Taylor]What “small talk”?! Have you heard my small talk?[John Taylor]

When you’re investigating two cases, but you only think you’re investigating one, nothing is going to make any sense. Instead, it becomes a lateral thinking puzzle. You have to recognise that something is missing, and look for what that is in the variables.

Two things can be true at once.

Thank goodness for that. A coincidence. We needed one of those. I mean, ideally, we’d have three to be statistically significant, but one’s a start.

It’s just one day, one day in a life. I mean, if you think about it logically, you can get through one day.[Lucy Betts-Taylor]Logic doesn’t come into it.[John Taylor]

I’ve worked sites like this all my life and I’ve seen a million accidents like this one.[Connor Merton]And yet they keep employing you![John Taylor]

I’m sure you can cope for one day without me. Can make a lads’ night out of it.[Lucy Betts-Taylor]A lads’ night? Well, what exactly does that entail?[John Taylor]I don’t know? I’ve never been a “lad”.[Lucy Betts-Taylor]Neither have I.[John Taylor]Yeah, and I’m pretty borderline, to be fair.[Henry Betts-Taylor]

I’m not talking about his job. I’m talking about all of it. I’m talking about just getting up in the morning and leaving the house, coming out here to this! All this! Crowds and noise, and buildings and offices, and computers, and people! Nobody seeing each other, and everybody talking at once. Alarms going off, phones ringing. Everybody moving around, up and down and in and out, and no order to any of it. No structure, no purpose.

I was a sentimental idiot back then.[Lucy Betts-Taylor]Don’t say it like that. You still are.[John Taylor]Thank you.[Lucy Betts-Taylor]You’re welcome.[John Taylor]

I haven’t actually been able to solve it.[John Taylor]But you’re Ludwig.[Lucy Betts-Taylor]I’m sure even Elvis had his off days.[John Taylor]

I came here to find out what happened to my brother, but I don’t care any more. I’m angry with him. I have been since the very beginning, if I’m honest. But whatever he thinks he may have uncovered, Lucy and Henry should always have come first.[John Taylor]Family never does in this job. Maybe that’s the difference between you and a real detective.[Russell Carter]Then I’m glad I’m not one.[John Taylor]