- [Gently and Bacchus have already met Lord Blackstone who has said "just call me Hector". Now they are questioning Lady Blackstone]
- John Bacchus: We found your husband's car, Mrs Blackstone.
- Alethea Blackstone: [superciliously] I beg your pardon?
- John Bacchus: You hard of hearing?
- Hector Blackstone: My wife prefers to be "Your Ladyship".
- John Bacchus: [flippantly] Well I wouldn't mind being Bobby Charlton.
- Anthony Baugh: He's weak, Alethea, and not very bright.
- Alethea Blackstone: Have you ever met any government ministers?
- [after a drunken night, Bacchus has spent the night with an unknown older woman]
- John Bacchus: I woke up with a complete stranger next to us this morning.
- George Gently: [ironically] Some men pay money for that.
- John Bacchus: Should have seen the state of her. It's like waking up next to somebody's grandma.
- [Gently and Bacchus are going to interview Lord Blackstone. They have driven through the main gate and still haven't reached the house]
- John Bacchus: Are we nearly there? I mean, how much of England is one bloke allowed to own?
- [Lady Blackstone has claimed that her son James was playing backgammon with her the night that their car was involved in a fatal accident, but Lord Blackstone has since said that James was at the pub with him]
- John Bacchus: [sarcastically] That's a nasty cut you've got there, Your Highness. Did you get that playing backgammon?
- John Bacchus: How many times have these people got a free pass just because they won the pools on the day they were born?
- George Gently: Is that what you think of me... somebody who knows his place?
- John Bacchus: These people have been farting in our faces for centuries, and now we don't have to take it anymore... and here is my guv'nor callin' this stuck-up cow, "Your Ladyship."
- [last lines]
- George Gently: Just out of interest, what sort of people do you think should be runnin' this country?
- John Bacchus: People like me.
- Dr. Arnold: [to Gently] Tell me, Chief Inspector, when does it hurt the most? First thing in the morning or last thing at night?
- John Bacchus: You still think you should be runnin' the country, don't ya?
- Alethea Blackstone: You know, when I first met you, I took you as one of those angry young men with a... with a chip on his shoulder, but now I see you're actually quite well-balanced. You have a chip on both your shoulders.