- [last lines]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: [as the kettle starts to whistle] Now, that's the music I like to hear, and I could murder...
- Joyce Barnaby: Tom!
- DCI Tom Barnaby: What?
- Jack Magwood: Anyone for tea?
- Harriet Davis: Let me deal with them. We have to take our time with this.
- Gerry Moore: [lasciviously] How much time have you got?
- Harriet Davis: Enough for you no doubt, but nowhere near enough for me - as usual.
- Gerry Moore: Tell you what... I'll owe you one.
- Barbara Flux: [Repeated later by Barnaby] The hearth is the heart of the house. Curse the hearth and you curse the house.
- Giles Cato: Many great men began their careers as amateurs. Mr and Mrs Flux are, however, what one might call *rank* amateurs; rank in the sense of being off.
- Barbara Flux: We like to live in the spirit of the past.
- Lesley Flux: To live the past is to understand the past.