- Brigadier: [about Miss Pride] She's not scared of stickin' her neck out, is she?
- Chief Inspector Alleyn: She could teach a giraffe, believe me.
- Emily Pride: [to Alleyn] For someone who's not exactly disgraced himself in the intelligence service, you're very transparent, Roderick.
- Agatha Troy: [Referring to Alleyn] I think he just wants you to take his advice, that's all.
- Emily Pride: Oh, men always do, but I've got to a reasonably advanced age by ignoring most of it, and you haven't got to be doing what you do by taking men's advice, have you?
- Major Keith Ballantyne: [to Alleyn] You're a little bit posh for a copper, aren't you? I've met your type before. Swanky armored regiments thinking they're cavalry with horses.
- Chief Inspector Alleyn: I'm still a copper.
- Major Keith Ballantyne: Yes.
- [Turns and walks away]