- DS James Hathaway: I was training to be a priest - kind of closes down your life a bit. And then I was training to be a policeman.
- DI Robert Lewis: Closes your life down even more.
- DS James Hathaway: Thank heavens we found each other, sir.
- DI Robert Lewis: Good night?
- DS James Hathaway: Eyes hurt; skin hurts; tongue too big for mouth.
- DI Robert Lewis: Yeah, that's a good night.
- Dr. Laura Hobson: [Hobson greets Lewis, who's approaching the crime scene] Good morning. Where's your better half?
- DI Robert Lewis: If by that you mean Sergeant Hathaway...
- Dr. Laura Hobson: I was gonna say your "Mini-Me", but I didn't think you would get the pop culture reference.
- DI Robert Lewis: Don't be daft, woman. Even I've seen "The Italian Job".
- DI Robert Lewis: Life born of fire. I bet that means something in Latin.
- DS James Hathaway: What makes you say that?
- DI Robert Lewis: This is Oxford. Everything always means something in Latin
- [referring to Hathaway]
- DI Robert Lewis: How do you trust somebody you don't really know?
- Mr Cooper: You trust what you really know about them.
- Zoë Kenneth: You know the problem with living on your own?
- DS James Hathaway: What?
- Zoë Kenneth: You're on your own.
- DS James Hathaway: I love... I love the bells of Oxford, every hour on the hour like a soundtrack.
- [Taking a breath]
- DS James Hathaway: Yeah I love the bells of Oxford.
- Conan Jones: Let her try! One thing seven years at God awful public school taught me... You don't let the bullies win!
- DS James Hathaway: [loading piles of papers into boxes] I was just gonna say that I don't envy the fellow who's got to sort through all of this, and then I remembered that it would be me.