Midsomer Murders1997

[last lines]

[SPOILER ALERT!]

[DCI Barnaby confronts the murderer who strings him up from the rafters of a barn and prepares to kill him. DS Jones gets there just in the nick of time and pushes the murderer to the floor]

DCI John Barnaby:
Ahem.

DS Ben Jones:
[Jones looks upwards and sees Barnaby. He suppresses a smirk] Oh.

DCI John Barnaby:
Have you killed him?

[Jones checks for a pulse]

DS Ben Jones:
No.

DCI John Barnaby:
Good.

DS Ben Jones:
Should I, uh...

[Jones mimes taking photographs]

DCI John Barnaby:
Get me down?

DS Ben Jones:
You know, I should get some photos of the crime scene.

DCI John Barnaby:
Not if you ever want to have children.

[later, Barnaby and Jones are walking to the car]

DCI John Barnaby:
Tom said you were the right stuff.

DS Ben Jones:
Thank you, Sir.

DCI John Barnaby:
Of course, if word of my, um, "suspension" ever gets out...

DS Ben Jones:
Oh I don't suppose it will, Sir.

DCI John Barnaby:
Good.

DS Ben Jones:
Not while my career maintains its steady upward trajectory.

[they both chuckle]