- Richard Onslow Roper: War is a spectator's sport. We are emperors of Rome, Andrew. Blood and steel, the only elements that ever meant anything.
- Sandy Langbourne: [about Roper] Something's wrong. He's treating me like I just shot his mother.
- Jonathan Pine: He thinks there might be a rotten apple.
- Sandy Langbourne: What do you mean?
- Sandy Langbourne: [laughs] Don't be ridiculous.
- Jed Marshall: I took a photograph of your list on my phone. I'm sorry.
- Richard Onslow Roper: Why on earth did you do that?
- Jed Marshall: Because I wanted to know what the man I'm sleeping with does for a living.