- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: You're not taking this situation seriously.
- Phryne Fisher: I haven't taken anything seriously since 1918. Shouldn't you be clapping me in irons?
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: Too much paperwork.
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: And I want everybody searched.
- Hugh Collins: [clears throat] The... the women too, sir?
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: There's no lady constable to call on, Collins. Do your best.
- Hugh Collins: I... I think... I think she might be a Catholic, sir.
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: Oh, for Gods sake. It's not as if she were born with two heads.
- Hugh Collins: Well, that'd be preferable in the eyes of my mother.
- Nerine Rogers: I don't recall invitin' you into my dressin' room.
- Phryne Fisher: I'll overlook it just this once.
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: I am the servant of the law, not its master.
- Phryne Fisher: Well, in this case, the law is an ass.
- Phryne Fisher: I thought your hands were tied.
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: Yes, but yours are not.