- Chief Inspector Morse: They don't spell Australian beer with four Xs out of ignorance - they mean what they say. And *light* beer is an invention of the Prince of Darkness.
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: [Admiring the beautiful countryside] Garden of Eden, this is!
- Chief Inspector Morse: [Laconically] In that case, watch out for snakes.
- Chief Inspector Morse: [Seeing no one in town] Where is everyone? Do Australians take siestas or what?
- Sergeant Scott Humphries: [Drunkenly to Lewis] Got the right woman - this is the best little countryin the world. The best! The right woman... Why is it that the right woman is always shacked up with the wrong man? Ay?... Ay?
- Chief Inspector Morse: [Frustrated and depressed, to Lewis] What's happening to me, Lewis? I don't know what I'm doing anymore!
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: [referring to her mother's stroke] Is your mother okay?
- Karen Harding: This is her second one. She never really got her speech back from the first.
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: My auntie had a stroke. She lost her speech. She was right as rain in six months.
- Karen Harding: It doesn't rain here.
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: [to a depressed and remorseful Morse] You blame yourself too much, you know that? You're always blamin' yourself.
- Chief Inspector Morse: I've got a lot to blame myself for...
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: I still think it's too risky.
- Chief Inspector Morse: Ah, I'm old and unmarried, and... don't understand human nature. What does it matter?
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: How old are you?
- Chief Inspector Morse: I forget, Robbie.
- Chief Inspector Morse: [Condescendingly] Why don't you get back to your steak, Lewis? It should be just about leathery enough for you now.
- Chief Superintendent Strange: You know what they say about funerals, Lewis? There's always someone catches his death.