Due South (TV Series)

An Eye for an Eye (1995)

Paul Gross: Constable Benton Fraser

Quotes 

• Fraser : Where I come from... the challenges are quite different. There are no drug dealers or pimps, few thieves to bother with. There's only the environment, and surviving in the face of it is the challenge... of the Inuit. A mother gives birth somewhere out on a glacier field, hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost. And she knows the odds are stacked against her son even living to see the spring; disease, or the lack of food, the elements. And even if he should survive and grow to be a boy, she knows very well that all he has to do is lose his footing on the smooth surface of a glacier and that will be that. In other words, she should know that her son... cannot live. So, why should she try? Well, I know this woman. I helped deliver her son. She was weak and undernourished, but the next morning she stood up and she picked her child up in her arms and... and she set out again into the blinding snow and I think... I think that was the single most courageous act I've ever seen.

• Fraser : Ray, sapling!

  [pointing to a small sapling tree coming up] 

  Ray Vecchio : Where?

  Fraser : Twelve o'clock.

  Ray Vecchio : [bashes it with the front bumper]  Got it!

• Fraser : [as Ray is trying to retrieve Herb's baseball bat from a small boy]  Ray, please! Children are just like people, only smaller. All you have to do is reason with them. Now, son, that bat is important evidence in a criminal investigation, and we'd be most grateful if you'd cooperate.

  Little Boy : A hundred bucks!

  Fraser : I see. Ray?

  Ray Vecchio : Okay, kid. Can you spell 'penitentiary'? Let's try it together. P-E-N...

  Little Boy : [shoves the bat at Ray]  Okay, here!

• Ray Vecchio : Oh, no, Fraser, not another dumpster! I am NOT getting in a dumpster with you! Fraser, there's no way I'm getting into this dumpster with you! Don't even think about it, don't even suggest it! You know how many suits I've ruined frolicking in refuse for you?

  Fraser : [passing over an armful of aluminum tubes]  Here, check these.

  Ray Vecchio : It's a waste of time! Half the stuff in there would qualify as a weapon.

  Fraser : Well, it would have to be something concealable, probably under a coat.

  Ray Vecchio : No, that's not it... and that's not it... Aha! There it is!

  Fraser : That's not blood, Ray.

  Ray Vecchio : Well, sure it is. It's red and it's sticky. Yech!

  Fraser : [tastes the spot and shakes his head]  Ketchup.

  Ray Vecchio : Well, who sits in a dumpster and eats ketchup?

  Fraser : [picking a french fry off Ray's shoulder]  Probably someone who likes french fries.

• Fraser : [shaking hands with Welsh]  Thank you very kindly for your time, Lieutenant. And as usual, our conversation has been extremely helpful.

  Harding Welsh : I'm so glad, Constable.

  Fraser : [proffering an envelope]  Also, sir, I think you'll be pleased to know that I've taken the liberty of officially reprimanding myself.

  Harding Welsh : Oh, good, good. Put it in the file with the rest of them.

  [Ray sticks out his hand] 

  Harding Welsh : Get out of my office!

• Ray Vecchio : So you decided to scare the vigilante by destroying the only piece of evidence we have against him?

  Fraser : Well, he may try again, Ray. I felt it was worth the risk.

  Ray Vecchio : Fraser, it's about time someone told you. It's the little things like this that make them not want you back across the border.