Waking the Dead (TV Series)
Wren Boys: Part 1 (2007)
Trevor Eve: Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd
Quotes
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Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : [Entering the interrogation room] Mr. Ryan...
Liam Ryan : Liam, please. I'm only ever called Mister if I'm in trouble. Am I in trouble?
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Liam Ryan : I need protection.
Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : From who?
Liam Ryan : The Devil.
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Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : [At the shrine] Do you believe in any of this?
Dr. Grace Foley : Well, I think it's important that people have hope.
Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : Yeah, but it's a false hope though, isn't it?
Dr. Grace Foley : Sometimes it's better to have a little hope rather than no help at all, don't you think?
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Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : Let's go.
DC Stella Goodman : Where?
Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : To the woods.
DC Stella Goodman : [Clearly nervous about it] But the dog...
Dr. Grace Foley : Yes, you want to be careful.
DC Stella Goodman : Oh, you're not coming?
Dr. Grace Foley : No, I don't do woods at night.
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Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : [Investigating Davy McDonagh's death] Do you employ gypsies?
Sean Killigan Snr : I use Irish lads. Some of them are travelers, yeah.
Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : Did he work for you?
Sean Killigan Snr : You could say 'no', and that might be a lie. The honest answer is I don't know.
Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : So that could be a 'yes.'
Sean Killigan Snr : It could be.
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Dr. Grace Foley : [Speaking of a Celtic symbol] Symbol was painted on the shields and torsos of warriors. It was believed to guarantee rebirth.
Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : Didn't work then for Davy then, did it?
Dr. Grace Foley : Well, obviously not, but what it has done is shown us the world he inhabited at the time of his death. It was steeped in ritual.
Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : So, we're looking for an Irish traveler religious sect that sacrifices people in concrete pits.
Dr. Grace Foley : Please don't go there.
Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd : Don't you think the nuns did it? I think the nuns did it.