- DS Ben Jones: I find Shakespeare a bit hard going, to be honest with you, sir. Bit of a snore.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Yeah, well, four hours on a stone seat in the open air, that'll be hard going all right.
- DS Ben Jones: Four hours!
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Yes, well, unfortunately, Jones, brevity was never the soul of Shakespeare's wit.
- DS Ben Jones: Yeah. Sentences longer than Judge Lloyd's.
- [last lines]
- DS Ben Jones: I appreciated your trust over the Mason's thing.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Well, trust, Jones, is something hard to win, easy to lose, and never to be taken lightly.
- DS Ben Jones: William Shakespeare, sir?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: No. Thomas Barnaby.
- DS Ben Jones: You mean King's Crystal is going to be made in China?
- Charles King: In 20 years' time everything will be made in China. One has to move with the times.