C.B. Strike

C.B. Strike is a British television series of miniseries airing on BBC One (2017-present) that follows Cormoran Strike (Tom Burke), a war veteran turned London-based private detective solving complex long cold cases with assistant Robin Ellacott (Holliday Grainger), based on the novel series by Joanne Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

The Cuckoo's Calling

The Cuckoo's Calling: Part 1

Cormoran Strike: [To his false leg] Bollocks! Why do I always take you off before I remember to have a piss? [He reaches for a coffee mug and pees into it]

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[Cormoran is inquiring Lula's driver]

Nico Kolovas-Jones: She lived in a world that's really fucking hard. We had a lot in common.

Cormoran Strike: Such as?

Nico Kolovas-Jones: Both mixed-race, for one thing. My dad's a Cypriot from Swansea, and my mum's a West Indian Scouser.

Cormoran Strike: [Ironically] Must have been a nice quiet wedding.

The Cuckoo's Calling: Part 3

Cormoran Strike: The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.

The Silkworm

The Silkworm: Part 2

Robin Ellacott: [Comes home from work to find that Matthew has returned from his mother's funeral and is ironing one of her dresses] Wow. Thanks.

Matthew Cunliffe: Have you ever tried to iron a dress? There's no right angles.

Robin Ellacott: Well, that's the problem with breasts for you.

Career of Evil

Career of Evil: Part 1

Cormoran Strike: [To DI Wardle, on the phone over Robin having had just opened a package containing a bottom human leg half at the workplace] We've been sent a leg. It's not even in my size.

Lethal White

Lethal White: Part 1

Jasper Chiswell: You're not due here for another hour.

Raff Chiswell: I thought you valued punctuality.

Jasper Chiswell: Being early is not punctual. Being on time is punctual

Lethal White: Part 3

Cormoran Strike: [Confronted by a man with a kitchen knife] What are you going to do; butter me?

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Robin Ellacott: [Gets into a taxi and bursts into tears. The taxi driver hands her a box of tissues] I've just left my husband.

Minicab Driver: [Sympathetically] Yeah? I've left two. Gets easier with practice.

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Robin Ellacott: [She is leaving Matthew overs proof that he is having an affair] I don't want to be with you any more. We should have split up on honeymoon. I mean, we shouldn't even have got married. I thought I owed you this face to face.

Matthew Cunliffe: How do you think your life looks to other people? You bailed out on uni. Now you're bailing out on us. You're a flake. You're a Peeping Tom for a living - and you managed to get sacked from that! You know he's only taken you back because you're cheap.

Robin Ellacott: [Calmly] Thank you. You've just made this really easy.

External links

• C.B. Strike quotes at the Internet Movie Database