- [visiting a bookshop, Scott is told the book he is looking at is on sale for £12.99]
- Sergeant Dan Scott: That's five pints and change over the way.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Literature is priceless, Scott. Let that thought console you!
- [last lines]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: I was right about the publishing world; it stinks. But I'm sure a jury'll go for Camilla's plea of self-defense. Do my best to back her up, anyway.
- Joyce Barnaby: I'm sure you will.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Eh. To Camilla Crofton! May she live forever. Nostrovia.
- [Barnaby and Scott have returned to a murder victim's bedroom]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: [looking around] You noticed what else is missing, Detective?
- Sergeant Dan Scott: Sympathy, Sir?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: No.
- [Barnaby points to a low shelf attached to the wall]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Look. No piggy bank.
- Scott: [after he is nearly run over by Jezebel] Thanks... for not killing me.
- Jezebel Tripp: I only kill when I'm bored.
- Sergeant Dan Scott: [remarking on the sexy Jezebel] Very tasty!
- Cully Barnaby: It's not just Muesli she eats for breakfast, you know.
- [first lines]
- Jezebel Tripp: No nationals! No telly!
- Neville Williams: I said low key.
- Jezebel Tripp: Low key doesn't mean dead on arrival, Neville.
- [Sergeant Dan Scott approaches DCI Tom Barnaby, who is standing over the body of Jezebel Tripp]
- Sergeant Dan Scott: Well bang goes our table for two at Sergio's tomorrow night.
- Mrs Hunnicutt: Good morning.
- Grace Maplin: I didn't sleep.
- Mrs Hunnicutt: Only the righteous sleep, Mrs. Maplin. Not many of those about.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Harry, we've known each other now for what? Thirty years. And for most of that time I've known -well, all of us have known - about your orientation. And I can quite understand why, you know, you felt the need to keep it a secret.
- Harry Poulson: Can you?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Well, all right, no I can't.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: No flirting on duty, Casanova.
- Sergeant Dan Scott: Not really my style, Sir.
- [Scott turns to Barnaby]
- Sergeant Dan Scott: Casanova?
- Barnaby: Do you smoke cigars, Miss Tripp?
- Jezebel Tripp: I have the odd one when nobody's looking. Smoking's so 20th Century.
- Tim Settingfield: Well, comrades. As I see it, we need to establish whether one of us murdered Neville Williams.
- John Denton: [realizes that both Tim and Kay are looking at him] What, you don't think I...
- Kay Settingfield: Well, it wasn't us!
- John Denton: You said you were going to deal with him!
- Kay Settingfield: Not like that! We haven't got the training!