River (TV Mini Series)
Episode #1.1 (2015)
Stellan Skarsgård: John River
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Quotes
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Rosa Fallows : Even if you were just colleagues, there was love, perhaps?
John River : [laughs] Love. I've been trying to remember what that feels like, to be in love. It's been a while. For whatever reason, it has passed me by. The closest I got felt like food poisoning.
[Rosa smiles]
John River : In books and films and plays, it's always so compelling, so complex. There should be more than one word for love. I've seen love that kills and I've seen love that redeems. I've seen love that believes in the guilty and love that saves the bereaved. What we will do for love. Die for it, even.
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Chrissie Read : What were you thinking? You're not on the case!
John River : It's the same car.
Chrissie Read : Well, we'll leave that to forensics, shall we? You see psychs in the morning, like I asked you. Rosa, 9 AM. Be early. She'll only say what everyone else says.
[softly]
Chrissie Read : You can't bring Stevie back.
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : [as River walks away] What does she know?
John River : [chuckling] Exactly. Exactly!
[as Stevie turns to follow, we see that she has a gaping hole in the back of her head, and River is actually talking to himself]
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John River : Mosquitos have 47 teeth.
Ira King : How do they fit in such a tiny mouth?
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Journalist 2 : You are confident there will be justice, Inspector?
John River : Well... All murderers are punished, eventually. Unless they kill in large numbers, and to the sound of trumpets.
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Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : Oi. Last holiday you took, you called me with heat stroke. From Scotland.
John River : Told you I hate holidays.
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : So get back to work, then. We made a promise to Erin's mother.
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Erin Fielding : Morning.
[Her reflection appears in the mirror beside River's. She brushes her teeth as he brushes his]
Erin Fielding : Do you know your teeth are the last thing to rot, after bones, and hair, and skin?
John River : George Washington wore hippopotamus teeth.
Erin Fielding : You've run out of Shreddies again.
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Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : Rosa. That's a good name for a psychiatrist. I thought it went quite well.
[shaking her head]
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : There's stuff you could have said. How long we've worked together, when we met, how I bug the shit out of you, how I won't give you any rest. Just stuff, stuff.
John River : What are her credentials, references? Where does she come from, anyway?
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : She done nine years with the Met and six years in Broadmoor.
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[first lines]
Fast Food Server : Can I take your order?
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : Hurry up.
[pauses]
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : Burger, extra cheese, no onions.
John River : Uh, burger, uh, cheese, onion.
Fast Food Server : Window number two, please.
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : [scoffing] Muffed it.
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Chrissie Read : River, Detective Sergeant King.
Ira King : Ira.
John River : [shaking his hand] Ira. From the Hebrew, meaning watchful or full-grown.
Ira King : [joking] Father Muslim, mother Jewish. I'm the original Gaza Strip.
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Ira King : Revolver or Sgt. Pepper?
John River : [softly] Sgt. Pepper.
Ira King : [nodding] Agreed. I'll see you in the morning, then.
John River : Yeah.
Ira King : You'll be alright?
John River : Yeah.
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : [after Ira leaves River's apartment] Linda or Yoko?
John River : Linda.
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : 'Cause she's blonde?
John River : [chuckling] No.
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : [laughing] 'Cause she's blonde.
John River : No!
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Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : And how many points, do you think, in a glass of wine?
John River : Five?
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : Three.
[slurps her drink]
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : Nicoise salad, Petrie Express. A bit of tuna, a bit of egg, a few beans. A bit of olive. 19 points.
John River : 19?
Jackie 'Stevie' Stevenson : All in the dressing.