- DCI Tom Barnaby: Who's this character you're playing?
- Cully Barnaby: Varya.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: And what is she?
- Cully Barnaby: She is Madam Ranevsky's eldest daughter; wants to join a convent to become a nun, and has got a thing about needing to be helpful, but in fact just ends up driving everybody mad.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: And the director thought that was you?
- Cully Barnaby: Yup.
- [they both laugh]
- [last lines]
- Joyce Barnaby: Is that a tear?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: No, I was just wondering how I might feel if I went in tomorrow morning and asked for a few days leave.
- Joyce Barnaby: Leave!
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Yeah, just you and me together go away somewhere for a while.
- Joyce Barnaby: You mean somewhere like... Bournemouth?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: No, I don't mean somewhere like Bournemouth. I thought, if they're going away to New Zealand for a honeymoon, why don't we beat them to it?
- Angie Walker: [to Tom] well, this all started a month ago. Loneliness and Southern Comfort at three o'clock in the morning, Chief Inspector. It's a heady mix.
- DS Ben Jones: You know what I realized?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: What do you realize?
- DS Ben Jones: We caught the woman who put the psycho into psychotherapy.
- Angie Walker: And what's that supposed to mean?
- Bob Walker: It means I wasn't born yesterday.
- Angie Walker: [bitterly] Well, more's the pity, Bob. We could have started building your personality from scratch.
- Gina Colby: Tom, I want you to find the evil bastard who did this, then lock him up and throw away the key.