- [last lines]
- DCI John Barnaby: I don't think I thanked you for, uh, putting in a word.
- Dr. Bullard: Oh, call it a parting gift. I've decided I'm going to do some more fishing. Like Tom. He suggested a holiday in Ireland.
- DCI John Barnaby: Guinness and trout. Sounds good.
- Dr. Bullard: Tom is a hard act to follow. You're getting there.
- Millie Bullard: Come on, George!
- DCI John Barnaby: Miss Bullard says the only way she can get a handle on Sykes's personality is if she meets us both. It went well.
- Sarah Barnaby: There was no inappropriate behaviour? No leg mounting?
- DCI John Barnaby: None.
- Sarah Barnaby: And Sykes behaved himself?
- DCI John Barnaby: [Surprised to see a vacationing Jones with whisker stubble and sunglasses] Oh, very "Miami Vice!"
- DS Ben Jones: Just part of the role playing.
- DCI John Barnaby: The killer was never apprehended.
- DS Ben Jones: No.
- DCI John Barnaby: I think it's time they were.
- DS Ben Jones: It's sad we met the way we did.
- Ruth Lambert: For a while there I thought I might have been the real thing... Ah... I suppose once I've given you this, you'll have got all you need from me, and we'll be able to go our separate ways.
- DS Ben Jones: Ruth, Ruth, I'm sorry we met the way we did as well.
- Ruth Lambert: Broken... can't be mended. Shame but there we are.
- [Barnaby is in the local pub asking about the Oblong Foundation]
- Claire Powell: Well they're pretty harmless, as cults go.
- Josie Palmer: Harmless? Jerry and Carolyn Lambert would be spinning in their graves if they knew what was happening up the Hall - the mind control, psychological manipulation. And then there's the nudity and the orgies and the ritualised flagellations.
- [the Commodore has been eavesdropping]
- Commodore: Not *all* bad, then!
- Commodore: [about Lucy] Putting her parents through *hell* like that. Two months, was it?
- Millie Bullard: I think it's got something to do with not being able to come to terms with her sexuality. Punishing them.
- Commodore: Or because they were right about the Obbies. A parent can do almost nothing worse than be right in circumstances like that.
- DCI John Barnaby: I am interested in what happened on the night of the explosion.
- Crusty: No-one was that interested in what I had to say at the time.
- DCI John Barnaby: Yes, I, uh, found a comment in the case notes. Said you seemed to be high during pretty much all of your waking hours.
- Crusty: Yeah, doesn't mean you don't hear things.
- DCI John Barnaby: I think that was his point.
- DCI John Barnaby: I hope Sykes didn't disgrace himself.
- Millie Bullard: Oh, he did make some amorous advances towards two of my bitches which wasn't the best of starts, but I think from Sykes's point of view it was top banana.
- [first lines]
- Max Fuller: [answering enterphone] Yes?
- Max Fuller: Yes, of course. This is a surprise.
- Max Fuller: How awful.
- Max Fuller: Not at all, come on up. It's the, uh, third floor.
- Susan Crane: [as Barnaby shows up to her door to question her] Mr. Barnaby, to what do I owe the pleasure?
- DCI John Barnaby: It's an informal visit.
- Susan Crane: Oh, dear! That normally means you'll be asking me for information. I shouldn't really be going out.
- DCI John Barnaby: You've seen through me straight away.
- Susan Crane: [laughs] Well, I suppose the worst I can do is say no.
- DCI John Barnaby: I'll try my luck then.
- Sarah Barnaby: So Paddy was a lazy, good-for-nothing husband!
- DCI John Barnaby: Everybody has a place in the world.