Murder in Suburbia (2004–2005)

Lisa Faulkner: DS Emma Scribbins

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Quotes 

• [Ash and Scribbs have arrived at a school to interview the Headmaster - the bell rings and Scribbs starts running] 

  Ash : What are you doing?

  Scribbs : Sorry. Force of habit.

• [Ash and Scribbs have just interviewed a school Headmaster about his murdered secretary] 

  Scribbs : He convinced me.

  Ash : Bet that's not the first time you made a Headmaster cry.

• Ash : What's my single, most important rule about men, Scribbs?

  Scribbs : Uh, they mustn't be married?

  Ash : No, the other one.

  Scribbs : No bad boys.

  Ash : Because?

  Scribbs : They're bad.

  Ash : And?

  Scribbs : They're boys.

• [Ash and Scribbs watch DCI Sullivan walk to his car] 

  Scribbs : If he turns out to be gay, I'm going to shoot myself.

• [Ash and Scribbs have reported their progress to DCI Sullivan] 

  Scribbs : Wasn't he wearing that shirt yesterday?

  Ash : [pulling a coin out of her pocket]  Heads, his washing machine's broken. Tails, he's a dirty stop-out.

  [tosses the coin] 

  Scribbs : Well?

  Ash : You don't want to know.

• [Scribbs has been to a clothing consultant] 

  Scribbs : They look at your hair and your skin tone, and decide what colour your clothes should be.

  Ash : So what did they say about you?

  Scribbs : That I was an "autumn" - that I look best wearing subdued tones.

  Ash : Subdued?

  Scribbs : Tones. Apparently bright colours don't suit me. The mistake I made was dressing as a "summer". Which is why I've been attracting the wrong kind of men.

  Ash : So you're saying the right kind of man's attracted to a woman in a mushroom-brown outfit?

  Scribbs : D'you think I look a bit...?

  Ash : No, Scribbs, you look fine. You look absolutely fine.

  Scribbs : Honest?

  Ash : Well, actually...

  Scribbs : Truth.

  Ash : You look like a fungus!