- DCI Tom Barnaby: Lady Annabel says that you dropped in on her for a cocoa round about midnight.
- Teddy Butler: Oh, really? Oh, well, if Annabel says it, it must be true.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Well, don't you remember yourself?
- Teddy Butler: Yesterday is another country, Mr. Barnaby. Borders are now closed.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: [Referring to Sir Freddy] Maybe he found the legendary Haddington emeralds.
- Cully Barnaby: Do they actually exist?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: No, that's why they're legendary.
- Dr. Bullard: Natural causes, Tom. Makes a change for Midsomer, but there you go. Can't have everything.
- Lady Annabel Butler: Mr. Barnaby, please try not to be quite so middle class. Most of the better English families breed out now and then. Just as well. Without new blood, they'd all have been gaga generations ago.
- DC Ben Jones: [Looking at youthful picture of Lady Lucinda] Whoo! She was quite tasty!
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Wasn't she, Jones? Terrible what 30 years of fags and booze can do, no?
- Michael Butler: I killed Sandra.
- Lady Tara Butler: Michael!
- DCI Tom Barnaby: And why, why would you do that?
- Michael Butler: Because she was ghastly, and I'm an awfully good shot.
- Sir Freddy Butler: I mean I'm not a snob, Barnaby, but look at her. Like finding a hippo in your carp pond.