- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: [to Havers] When we get to Black Rod's office, please, don't ask the obvious question!
- Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers: I've joined one of those dating agencies.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: Really?
- Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers: What?
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: Just... really?
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: Let not the cross bind you to sin.
- Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers: What is that, the Bible?
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: Experience.
- Sergeant Barbara Havers: Well, I should get going.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: [bitterly] Yeah, yeah. Can't keep your latest beau waiting, can we?
- Sergeant Barbara Havers: [taken aback] Um, no. Goodnight, sir.
- Simon Featherstonehaugh: How's the investigation going?
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: We're making progress.
- Simon Featherstonehaugh: Dirty work. But someone's got to do it.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: Could say the same for you.
- Simon Featherstonehaugh: Idealism is the despot of thought, Tommy.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: As politics is the despot of will, to complete the Bakunian quotation.
- Simon Featherstonehaugh: [laughs] You always had a retentive memory.