- Barbara Havers: [to the police squad searching the school] If you've got a key, use it! Otherwise kick the door down!
- Pathologist: [to body of dead boy just prior to autopsy] Okay, son, time to tell me all you know.
- John Corntel: [to Lynley] Have you been on the force so long you see everything through the jaded eyes of a copper. Not obsession, Tommy, love... love.
- Barbara Havers: [Exiting her father's hospital room] Ah, how'd you know I was here?
- Thomas Lynley: It's the only place you ever turn off your mobile.