- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Sometimes there's just no justice in the world. Drink?
- Detective William Murdoch: I might almost say yes.
- Detective William Murdoch: Did he have any enemies?
- Thaddeus Walsh: Name me one politician worth his salt who doesn't.
- Detective William Murdoch: George, there is absolutely no scientific basis for the existence of ghosts.
- Constable George Crabtree: Yes sir, but you yourself have said the absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence.