- DCI Tom Barnaby: I want you to do it.
- DS Ben Jones: What?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Be best man.
- DS Ben Jones: [ironically] "But before I toast the bridesmaids, I'd like to arrest the bride and groom."
- DCI Tom Barnaby: If that's what it takes.
- [first lines]
- Lynne Fox: Oh, hello. Hello. Now, as you probably know, Alyssa Bradley's house is about to be...
- Young Mum: I've already told you I'm not interested.
- Lynne Fox: If we are to stop this bypass, we must...
- Young Mum: My Fred's working for Jack Purdy.
- Lynne Fox: Oh. Is he? Why?
- Young Mum: To earn money! Where else is there work round here?
- Lynne Fox: I suppose you must think of me as one of your chief suspects.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Now why would I do that?
- Lynne Fox: Three bodies in two days and I discovered them all.
- [last lines]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: She's waited nineteen years for this. No harm in giving her a few minutes more.
- Lynne Fox: Thank you.