- Dr Bullard: I can't go down there myself.
- DCI John Barnaby: What?
- Dr Bullard: The dust. It gets on my lungs.
- [hands Barnaby a mask]
- Dr Bullard: I suggest you use one of these.
- DCI John Barnaby: Can't you use one?
- Dr Bullard: No, they're pretty useless.
- DCI John Barnaby: Is there any young woman round here you haven't dated?
- DS Ben Jones: Just looking for the right one. How did you know Mrs Barnaby was right for you?
- DCI John Barnaby: She told me.
- [He walks away]
- DS Ben Jones: [Aloud to himself] Ah, yeah.
- DCI John Barnaby: I'm looking for case files from thirty-five years ago.
- DS Ben Jones: Anything over ten years old gets sent to the central files warehouse.
- DCI John Barnaby: Which is where?
- DS Ben Jones: Which is burnt down ten years ago.
- DCI John Barnaby: I love this place.
- DS Ben Jones: [Jones, muttering as Barnaby leaves] You failed, Jones; I'm going to have to do it for you. Thanks, Superman, what would we do without you?
- DCI John Barnaby: So, what have you got to do today?
- Sarah Barnaby: Meet my department heads, who will *hate* me because I'm an outsider.
- DCI John Barnaby: You could retire. We could live off my earnings.
- Sarah Barnaby: It's a brilliant idea. Poverty and boredom at one stroke.
- Eddie Stanton: [Discussing their stud race horse] Wish I got a hundred grand a time.
- Selina Stanton: You'd still be broke.
- Eddie Stanton: Oh, that's very nice, very charming. Thank you so much.
- [last lines]
- DCI John Barnaby: How's things with your deputy?
- Sarah Barnaby: She's retiring.
- DCI John Barnaby: Really? Any particular reason?
- Sarah Barnaby: Not that she told me.
- DCI John Barnaby: Ah well. Probably for the best.
- Sarah Barnaby: She said she bumped into you the other day.
- DCI John Barnaby: Oh... yes.
- Sarah Barnaby: Do you have anything to tell me?
- DCI John Barnaby: [pause] No.
- Gerry Dawkins: [as he is being forced into his car by Stanton] Excuse me. We do have a zero tolerance policy towards verbal and physical abuse!
- Eddie Stanton: Come back here, you're gonna need it. Start paddlin'.
- Selina Stanton: [Sarcastically after Haskins pulls away in his car] Oh, very smart!
- Selina Stanton: [Referring to her parents] Do you really want them smeared all over the local papers?
- Eddie Stanton: Selina, shut up. There's a doll.
- Selina Stanton: I am not a doll.
- Eddie Stanton: That was irony.
- Selina Stanton: You couldn't even spell it.
- Eddie Stanton: [Inside their car as they drive away] Look, we have got to stop slagging each other off in front of people.
- Selina Stanton: Why?
- Eddie Stanton: Because we're a team. That's what I told the selection committee.
- Selina Stanton: No wonder they laughed.
- DCI John Barnaby: Jones...
- DS Ben Jones: Yes, sir?
- DCI John Barnaby: This circus... this death in the afternoon... what is it not about? It's not about me. Ergo, therefore in parallel... hmmm?
- DS Ben Jones: [Starting to understand his point] It's not about me either.
- DCI John Barnaby: It's about mechanics, logistics, evidence, and what sort of salad we make of those wonderful ingredients.
- DCI John Barnaby: [Barnaby walks away as the lesson sinks in] Fine, fine... make me feel better then.