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3.31 Monday Hot Lick

This week we have a British accented start thanks to my spending the weekend watching MI-5: Volume 5.  I'm considering creating a section for it here with commentary and quotes. 

Welcome, our hot lick for the last day of March, Rupert Penry-Jones (picture courtesy of www.dailymail.co.uk):

3.28 Friday Song

The video was created by the poster, jax4java, but the music is my Friday Song of the Day: Nina Simone singing "Trouble in Mind." This is one of my favorites of hers.

3.26 Hump Day quote

"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty only being skin deep.  That's deep enough.  What do you want - an adorable pancreas?"
- Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All The Lines, 1958

Blood Ties: Norman quotes

Vicki: They're demon brands, Coreen. They're not Hello Kitty tattoos. Actually, that would be worse.

Vicki: I think I'll deal with them the same way I deal with everything that's complicated in my life; I'll avoid it until it goes away.

Kate: I'm driving. Hey, if you're a good boy you can play with my siren.
Mike: Promises, promises.

Vicki: I mean, I thought you were the Prince of Darkness but it's more like the Lord of Lechery or something.

Vicki: You're getting as paranoid as I am. I like that.

Henry: There's passion and then there's passion. Like the passionate longing for a lover's lips, his delicate touch, and then there's passion for gun magazines and shaking down suspects.

Mike: Since when does hell have exit privileges?

Norman: You think that shooting me is going to stop me?
Mike: Might make me feel better.

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Blood Ties: Post Partum quotes

Vicki: I don't think the world is ready for a mini me.

Vicki: Mike, I want you to be my baby daddy.
Mike: I'm...flattered?

Vicki: Ok, Ricky, whatever you say.
Mike: Who's Ricky?
Vicki: You are. I'm Lucy.
Mike: I'm so not going to be Ricky. I knew a Ricky once.
Vicki: Ok. How about Ike and Tina? Greg and Marsha? Moose and Squirrel?
Mike: Hey, how about Mike and Vicki?
Vicki: You're such a party pooper. All right, sweetie, I have to go. These records aren't going to forge themselves.

Coreen: Can vampires even have a kid?
Henry: When you turn someone, they can feel like your child but there is that vampire territorial instinct. It's not long before you want to kill them.
Coreen: So like other real kids and their parents?

Coreen: The only other information I have on killing elves involves rolling a 20 sided dice.

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Blood Ties: Necrodrome quotes

Henry: Love is always worth the risk. Eternity is a long time to live with regret.

Vicki: There's a code word for walking dead?

Mike: Call me when he starts eating brains.
Vicki: He's eating brains.
Mike: Nice try.

Vicki: Now all I can have to do is find an Egyptian necromancer operating somewhere in the city. I love my job.

Mike: Nothing like a body dump first thing in the morning.

Vicki: Ok, you know what? Go to Mike's car, give me 3 minutes, then switch on the sirens and head back in here.
Henry: How do I do that?
Vicki: It's the switch marked sirens.

Mike: I told you to keep your nose out of this.
Vicki: Yeah, well, so I ignored you. Besides, someone's got to save your cute little ass.
Mike: And you're doing a wonderful job of it, by the way.
Vicki: It gets better. Don't worry.

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Blood Ties: Stone Cold quotes

Coreen: You realize that Mike's giving you this case is like other guys giving you flowers?

Henry: She was beautiful and I loved her.
Vicki: Then she was lucky.
Henry: Are you feeling lucky?

Vicki: They never card me anymore. It's tragic.
Bouncer: What's tragic is you still care about that.

Model: What ever happened to beauty before age?
Vicki: Age stomped beauty's ass.

Henry: When did you become a prude?
Vicki: 5 minutes ago.
Henry: Funny, that's when it started to become interesting for me.

Vicki: Oh, you're the best lie detector a girl could have.

Vicki: What ever happened to the winsome awkwardness of teenagers? You know, their endearing shyness?
Coreen: Different website.

Henry: So the picture of the tattoo proves she knows him.
Vicki: Thereby proving she's a liar.
Henry: Can't hid that note of glee, can you?
Vicki: Don't deny me my small pleasures, Henry.

Henry: Can you even see?
Vicki: Not much. Look, get in the car, we'll argue about who's driving later.

Coreen: You've been reading.
Vicki: I read.
Coreen: Firearms manuals.

Mike: You know what? How I operate as a cop and How I operate in my personal life, you don't get a say in that anymore. Seriously, Vicki, why don't we just end this now? No harm, no foul.

Mike: Elana, I like you a lot but a woman who's not happy with the way she looks, there's no changing her mind. So if you need me to tell you what should be obvious...

Vicki: Here's what you don't understand about anyone who's worked homicide: we can't stop speaking for the dead.

Henry: If I'm doing this, I'm doing it for you.

Henry: Sometimes I think you forget what I am.
Vicki: Sometimes I try to forget.
Henry: I'm not going to be haunted by this.
Vicki: This is mine because I think you could forget who you could be.

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Blood Ties: Heart of Fire quotes

Vicki: You have 2 choices, and only one has a happy ending. You do know about happy endings, right?
Cassis: This where you come in, good cop?
Mike: Actually, she is the good cop.

Mike: Oh, listen, sweetheart, we are so not a couple.

Mike: Oh yeah, you remember that drug dealer? He had that bag taped over his head?
Vicki: Oh, yeah. You thought it was a premeditated hit.
Mike: You thought it was a crime of passion.
Vicki: Yeah, and she comes in and it's..
Mike and Vicki: Autoerotic asphyxiation.

Kate: It's coffee from sex crimes.
Mike: Oo, best in the building.

Vicki: Are you crazy? You could have gotten yourself killed.
Mike: Well, you're welcome.

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Blood Ties: Heart of Ice quotes

Henry: If this book isn't into the printers by the end of the month, my editor's going to kill me. Again.
Vicki: So much for a timeless existence as one of the children of the night.
Henry: Welcome to the 21st Century.

Henry: Maybe somebody should put together a hunting party?
Vicki: That's the spirit.
Henry: Actually, us not being the somebody I was referring to.

Vicki: I'm not going to like the monster version, am I?

Henry: If I'm going to kill somebody, I'm not going to be that sloppy about it.

Vicki: Well, great, all we need now is a flame thrower.
Coreen: Done. I'll need an hour. I made one last year for a party.
Vicki: Of course you did.

Vicki; Listen, Henry, we got to go back.
Henry: Into the sewer? To kill an unkillable spirit?
Vicki: Unless you have a better idea?
Henry: Not going into the sewer?

Henry: You know how I survived 500 years?
Vicki: Mega doses of vitamin C and complete danger avoidance?

Henry: One doesn't win a battle with...
Vicki: Don't even bother.

Mike: Do I look like the Lone Ranger to you?

Vicki: Good work with the reassuring tone.

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Blood Ties: Love Hurts quotes

Coreen: Adultery again? Where do people find the time?

Henry: Are you trying to suggest that Mike is good at his job?
Vicki: Not just his job.

Vicki: Oh, yeah, and love has such a great track record.

Vicki: You're kind of twisted. Anyone ever tell you that?

Henry: If you need to relax, I could quote you some poetry.
Vicki: You could try.
Henry: Apparently it works.
Vicki: If you want to know what works, you could get the garbage on your way out.

Vicki: Hi.
Henry: You ok?
Vicki: You weren't just over at my place somehow, um, in bed with me, running your hands all over my body, that kind of thing?
Henry: That depends. Were you enjoying it?
Vicki: Henry.
Henry: No.
Vicki: Are you sure?
Henry: I think I'd remember.
Vicki: Ok. Ok, good. Well, that's a load off. Pshew.
Henry: Disappointed?
Vicki: No, relieved.
Henry: You don't look relieved.
Vicki: Oh, no, this is my relieved face.
Henry: Because finding me in your bed running my hands all over your body would be...horrible?
Vicki: Well, unless you were invited.
Henry: I'm all ears.
Vicki: Obviously, here's the catch: You're a vampire. I'm a half blind private investigator. These stories always end up tragic.
Henry: We could beat the odds.
Vicki: I'm not that much of a gambler. Good night, Hank.
Henry: We could cuddle after.

Mike: Well, wouldn't want to kill the moment.

Henry: I don't have mojo. I have charm, charisma, if you will.
Coreen: I would.

Vicki: Just keep that filthy mind of yours on the case and Emmanuel.
Coreen: All I'm saying is two great guys and every night you're going home alone.
Vicki: Look, I'm just too busy for the messy relationship stuff right now.
Coreen: Too busy for the messy? Because the working women here sure aren't.

Coreen: An incubus. A sex demon. Sort of a virtual vibrator for the medieval set.

Henry: That's how they resisted me. They were under the influence of an incubus.
Vicki: I thought you were irresistible.
Coreen: You resist him.

Mike: You mean, don't mistake an incubus for a vampire? I can't believe I just said that.

Coreen: She's one of the Furies. The angry ones.
Henry: Relative of yours?
Vicki: Stop it.

Henry: You're a child, Celluci, cutting me off at the light.
Mike: You've been driving for what? 90 years? You still choke at a yellow? It's pathetic.

Vicki: I'm glad I'm not the one writing the report.
Mike: Murder by jealously demon in the second degree. Yeah, it practically writes itself.

Henry: Trepidation adds a certain vibrancy to any encounter but I prefer curiosity, willingness, passion.
Emmanuel: The constant battle of coercion gets tiring after a couple hundred of years.
Henry: Exactly, and it's amazing how women have changed over this past century.
Emmanuel: The art of romance is lost on women today.

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