- [Lewis and Hathaway are questioning friends of a murder victim]
- Lakshmi Eyre: Look, do you know how long we're going to have to hang on here? I've work to get back to.
- DS Hathaway: On a weekend?
- Lakshmi Eyre: [grinning] I'm CEO of Guilty Secrets.
- DS Hathaway: What's Guilty Secrets?
- DI Robert Lewis: It's a lingerie chain. Sergeant Hathaway doesn't get out much.
- [Lakshmi gives Hathaway a seductive look]
- DI Robert Lewis: [after leaving Lakshmi, Lewis and Hathaway walk across the quad]
- DS Hathaway: Regular customer, are you, Sir, at Guilty Secrets? Loyalty card holder?
- DI Robert Lewis: Every high street's got one - it's a major chain. Online and what-have-you.
- DS Hathaway: Online? Well.
- DI Robert Lewis: Just because I've heard of something you've not.
- DS Hathaway: My mind is on a higher plane.
- DI Robert Lewis: What sort of name is that for a place?
- DS Hathaway: It's from Pilgrim's Progress, by John Bunyan.
- [pauses]
- DS Hathaway: Didn't you go to Sunday School?
- DI Robert Lewis: No. A couple of missionaries made it up to Newcastle once. Ended up in the cooking pot I think.
- DI Robert Lewis: Anything?
- DS James Hathaway: According to the bank statements, been a lot of money withdrawn in the last year from a hole in the wall.
- DI Robert Lewis: How much is a lot?
- DS James Hathaway: More than you could possibly spend unless you'd suddenly developed a crack habit.
- Lakshmi Eyre: Outside of her cutting letters and the perennial round robin, I really didn't see or hear anything of Poppy after Uni. We were very different people.
- DS James Hathaway: In what way?
- Lakshmi Eyre: I made a success of my life.
- DI Robert Lewis: Sergeant Hathaway tells me you're a journalist, Miss. Carlyle. On The Post.
- Freya Carlisle: Columnist.
- DI Robert Lewis: Is there a difference?
- Freya Carlisle: About 40K per annum and my picture above the copy. 'Sex and the Single Girl' is mine. Can the modern miss have it all?
- DS James Hathaway: What's the verdict?
- Freya Carlisle: The jury's still out.
- DI Robert Lewis: I'm just trying to find out who killed your friend, Professor.
- Diana Ellerby: And are you any closer to doing that, do you think?
- DI Robert Lewis: I believe so, but i could use some help. I'm not the enemy.
- Diana Ellerby: Of course, you are. You just don't realize it.