- Inspector Thomas Lynley: Hey, Lafferty. What have you got?
- Lafferty: Well, apart from a great body and a sharp sense of style?
- Inspector Thomas Lynley: Yes, apart from that, yep.
- DC Winston Nkata: West Carriage Drive, which runs through the park, stays open until midnight.
- Sergeant Barbara Havers: Ah, that would give us a few hundred potential witnesses.
- Inspector Thomas Lynley: Or a few hundred potential suspects.
- Inspector Thomas Lynley: So I take it she ended the relationship.
- Tony Wainwright: No, I did.
- Inspector Thomas Lynley: Why?
- Tony Wainwright: Because... because she had a problem with intimacy and I was an impatient, insensitive idiot.
- Sergeant Barbara Havers: You mean she wouldn't have sex with you?
- Tony Wainwright: Yes, if you want to get gynecological.
- Hester Reed: [to Lynley and Havers] This is an awful take on good cop/bad cop. I can't tell who's who.
- [last lines]
- Sergeant Barbara Havers: Next time you say you're taking the day off, take the day off.
- Inspector Thomas Lynley: Sound advice, Havers. Sound advice.
- Hester Reed: Inspector Lynley. Can I help you?
- Inspector Thomas Lynley: Does Mr Wainwright ever sort out your household problems, Miss Reed?
- Hester Reed: I thought a policeman would understand a simple system of hierarchy core responsibility.
- Sergeant Barbara Havers: Oh yeah, no. He's the guvnor alright. But if he ever asks me to send his flowers for him, I'd tell him where to... plant them.
- Inspector Thomas Lynley: She would too, you know.