- Terence Charteris: It may have escaped your notice, Nick, but this marriage is on the rocks. We're just trying to hold things together till we get the business off the ground.
- Nick Cheyney: [to Diane] So, you and Braxton are...?
- Diane Charteris: Close.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Your informant has got to be right, hasn't he, about Ince setting up a job. What other interest could he have in a stately home?
- DS Ben Jones: Maybe he's come for a dose of culture and the guided tour. Although George does prefer to guide himself around places like this.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: And usually by torchlight when there's no-one else about.
- Danny Twyman: The only kind of relationship they had was the sort than happens after a fifty p a pint night in the student bar.
- Nick Cheyney: [to Raymond] What makes you think I want a disruptive old queen like you anywhere near my set?
- [last lines]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: I think he'd be very pleased, very proud, if he could hear you saying that.
- DS Ben Jones: Sir?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Well, obviously he saved his best performance for last.
- Raymond Clandillon: [to Barnaby] You'd be surprised how little someone will settle for when they're in love.