The Best DCI Chrissie Read Quotes

John: Where's your balls?
Chrissie: When did I ever need balls? When did balls ever make you a better detective? In 33 years in the force, that's what blokes say. Where's your balls? I got where I got. I did it, and I didn't need a pair of sodding nuts. Now piss off and let me do my shopping.

Chrissie: River, Detective Sergeant King.
Ira: Ira.
John: [shaking his hand] Ira. From the Hebrew, meaning watchful or full-grown.
Ira: [joking] Father Muslim, mother Jewish. I'm the original Gaza Strip.

Chrissie: What were you thinking? You're not on the case!
John: It's the same car.
Chrissie: 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: You can't bring Stevie back.
Jackie: [as River walks away] What does she know?
John: [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]

[first lines]
Chrissie: [playing his interview video] Just to go back over around. You came out of the Chinese restaurant...
John: Yeah.
Chrissie: After a brief exchange, she crosses the road. Did you see who shot her?
John: No, my view was obscured by the van.
Chrissie: But you saw the car pull away?
John: She crosses the road...
Chrissie: Do you recall the last thing she said to you?
John: [sighs]
Chrissie: River...
John: "Screw you, Mr. Magoo."
Chrissie: That's the last thing she said to you?
John: I got the blood all over my shirt.
[looks down at his sleeve]