- Owen August: [resentful of questions] Look, whatever you think, this is my personal business you're prying into.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Your wife had affairs with two men. These two men are now dead, so what do you expect us to think?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: [asking about his hill walking] Sure you don't come home after setting out, hide yourself away somewhere, and pretend you've been out on a walk?
- Owen August: Why would I do that?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Do you ever come home early?
- Owen August: [taking offense] Now, look...
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Not even on the odd occasion?
- Owen August: No, any wa...
- Owen August: [his eyes drop with embarrassment, he bites his lip, and laughs to himself ironically] I only return early when my wife is 'entertaining.'... I... like... to listen. She knows I like to listen... Is that a crime?
- Barbara Judd: I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but Dave Cutler wasn't exactly what you would call an honorable man. Far from it.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: How do you mean?
- Barbara Judd: Well, he liked women a bit too much.
- John Field: Other people's women, mostly.
- Barbara Judd: Yes.
- John Field: Marriage didn't mean a lot to him.
- Ben Barrow: Finished the investigations of yours yet, have you?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Not yet. No.
- Ade Jessell: Well, my advice to you is to pack up and go home.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Why?
- Ade Jessell: Because justice has been done, that's why. That randy bastard got what he deserved.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Did she also get what she deserved?
- Janet Reason: There's still some things of yours in the outhouse!
- Simon Reason: Yes, well, I haven't had time to clean them out, you know, Jan.
- Janet Reason: Then get off your ass and do it!
- [last lines]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: What's that?
- Sgt. Gavin Troy: I suppose I may as well dump it.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: What is it?
- Sgt. Gavin Troy: It was that present I bought for Jay.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Oh.
- Sgt. Gavin Troy: She didn't want it. I don't think she's over her last relationship.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Lord Byron, Selected Poems.
- Sgt. Gavin Troy: Yeah, she had this tatty old book in her house. Thought I'd buy her a new one. She marked that page in particular. Must be her favorite.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: [reads from the page] "So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night. But the heart be still and loving and the moon be still as bright."
- Ben Barrow: Hey, Owen.
- Owen August: I expect you'll have heard the sad news by now, Ben.
- Ben Barrow: About what?
- Owen August: The murder, of course.
- Ben Barrow: Oh, that.
- [pause]
- Ben Barrow: Right bloody nuisance is that. How do we play our Aunt Sally without a full team?
- Owen August: Oh, for goodness sake, Ben. Is that all you can think about at a time like this?
- Ben Barrow: Yes. Dave Cutler was our star player.
- Owen August: I'd say he was a star player in more ways than one.
- Janet Reason: This place pays because I got it right. Unlike dear old Simon. I mean, living in that rundown showroom, for God's sake.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: He said that he left you. Is that right?
- Janet Reason: [laughs] No, he'd say anything to save face. I own the house. I threw him out.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: [last lines] "So we'll go no more a-roving so late into the night. But the heart be still as loving and the moon be still as bright.
- Sgt. Gavin Troy: I'd say his taste in music was '80s soul.
- [looks around]
- Sgt. Gavin Troy: That's not exactly what I expected.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: What did you expect, Troy?
- Sgt. Gavin Troy: I don't know - I thought there'd be girlie pictures, dirty books, crate of condoms.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Don't think he needed pictures or books.
- Sgt. Gavin Troy: What exactly are we looking for, sir?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: A diary would be nice, if he kept one.
- Sgt. Gavin Troy: I'all take a look in the living room.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Yeah.
- Owen August: I asked for your support.
- Louise August: Support?
- Owen August: Considering the help I'be given you over the years, yes.
- Louise August: What help? I'm not one of those so-called writers of yours. I doubt if you really ever helped them. You only ever help yourself, you bastard.
- Owen August: [Louise informs Owen about the murder of Dave Cutler] When did this happen?
- Louise August: First thing this morning.
- Owen August: For God's sake, Louise, this is terrible. Why wasn't I told?
- Louise August: Because you weren't around.
- Owen August: But I have a right to be told!
- Louise August: Why? Maybe the police aren't that impressed with your OBE.
- Owen August: Oh, damn the OBE! I'm talking about my social standing in the community. I should have been the first to be told.
- Louise August: Then you shouldn't go traipsing around the hills every morning like a lunatic, should you?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: And we'll need an incident room.
- Sgt. Gavin Troy: I'll get the unit out, sir.
- WPC Jay Nash: May I make a suggestion, sir?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Please.
- WPC Jay Nash: I know this village and a mobile incident room is not going to work here.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Why?
- WPC Jay Nash: People with things to say won't come near it. They don't even trust the local library.