- [first lines]
- Charlie: Top o' the morning to you, Tim.
- Lt. Timothy Hanratty: And the rest of the day to you, Charlie.
- [last lines]
- Jessica Fletcher: All right, you two. Now what is it?
- Lt. Timothy Hanratty: Well, Jessica darling, actually it's my nephew Sean and his lovely wife Maggie. I've told them so much about Grace that, well, the dears ones have invited us for dinner so as they could, uh, get acquainted, as they say.
- Grace Fenton: I hope you don't mind.
- Jessica Fletcher: Mind?
- [laughs]
- Jessica Fletcher: Of course I don't mind. Well, what are we waiting for?
- Stephanie Holtz: You don't take no for an answer, do you?
- Jessica Fletcher: Not when it's the wrong answer.