- Liv Nash: You must see stuff like this all the time?
- DS James Hathaway: Yeah!
- Liv Nash: So, who do you call?
- DS James Hathaway: Good question.
- DS James Hathaway: [Introspectively] All of these lonely people pouring their lives into puzzles that can't be solved!
- [after a moment]
- DS James Hathaway: Ah, ignore me. I've got a touch of existential flu.
- [Receiving no verbal resonse]
- DS James Hathaway: What?
- DI Robert Lewis: I'm going to say it just this once. For your sake you need a partner, James. You need someone in your life.
- [after a pause]
- DI Robert Lewis: Let's call it a day.
- [They get up to leave]
- [last lines]
- DI Robert Lewis: What do I say to her? How do I tell her the truth?
- DS James Hathaway: Tell her with kindness. You're good at that.
- DS James Hathaway: [about Mia and Vincent] There's something not right about these two.
- DI Robert Lewis: They blink too much.
- Rev Conor Hawes: Do you have brothers, either of you? Do you never give your brother a Chinese burn or hide his glasses?
- DI Robert Lewis: No, I always liked my brother. Used to beat me at Subbuteo mind,
- DI Robert Lewis: Allow me to escort you off the premises.
- Vincent Vega: So that's it? You're not going to charge us?
- DI Robert Lewis: The thing is you want us to, so, no, we're not going to charge you. You're not worth the paper work.
- DS James Hathaway: [to Liv] Missing pieces of the puzzle are our stock-in-trade. Half the time we can't see what's in front of us.
- DS James Hathaway: [Authoratatively to Rev. Hawes] Don't leave Oxford, sir, We haven't finished with you yet.
- DI Robert Lewis: I hope you remembered to ask her some questions.
- DS James Hathaway: Yes, Sir, I did. Thank you. In fact, she was very helpful.
- DS James Hathaway: Your brother was found with a cross made of twigs laid on his chest. What do you make of that as a man of the cross?
- Rev Conor Hawes: The killer had a conscience.
- DI Robert Lewis: [reading the deceased's blood toxicology report] caffeine, nicotine, alcohol amphetamines...
- DI Robert Lewis: Cigarettes and coffee for breakfast lunch and dinner. He didn't do things by halves, did he?
- Dr. Laura Hobson: There speaks the voice of experience.
- DI Robert Lewis: Whatever gets you through.
- DI Robert Lewis: I'll tell you what, I'm getting sick of nonsense, poems or otherwise, sick of time wasters. I'm sick of speculating. I want facts; I want evidence.