- Reverend Nigel Brookthorpe: I've been rejected as Bishop of Causton, Doctor Lowe. The final nail in the coffin.
- Dr. Serena Lowe: I'm so sorry. I know how much you wanted that.
- Reverend Nigel Brookthorpe: It seems I'm always second best. No one seems to care about God anymore.
- Ambrose Deddington: [speaking to one of many beehive boxes draped in black cloth] I'll never let you down like that again. You have to believe -- it wasn't your fault that she died.
- DCI John Barnaby: [walking into scene] Mr. Deddington?
- Ambrose Deddington: It's called "telling the bees," Inspector. When someone dies, the bees have to be informed, otherwise they'll bring misfortune.
- DCI John Barnaby: And the black drapes?
- Ambrose Deddington: The hives are in mourning. Bees are believed to make sense of death, because... they have human souls.