- [in the Pitt Rivers Museum]
- Chief Inspector Morse: Is this stuff valuable?
- Jane Cotterell: Some of it, very. But of course all the most valuable artifacts are checked regularly.
- Chief Inspector Morse: And which are they?
- Jane Cotterell: Well the most popular - the things people most want to pinch - are the shrunken heads.
- Chief Inspector Morse: [chuckles] I know plenty of people with shrunken *brains*!
- Chief Inspector Morse: [referring to Brenda Brooks] That woman is too cool. It's like she's got it all rehearsed.
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: She was crying!
- Chief Inspector Morse: Not behind the eyes.
- Chief Inspector Morse: Anything I need to know?
- Dr. Laura Hobson: [Getting up from the floor, she stops and looks him over] Time you had a haircut. And that tie doesn't go at all with that jacket.