- DS James Hathaway: Well, Caesar was killed by a group of conspirators; gotta check Brutus, Cassius, Casca...
- DI Robert Lewis: This is Oxford, not ancient Rome.
- DS James Hathaway: They're easily confused, sir.
- Stephen Gilchrist: [Referring to the brutally murdered girl] She didn't deserve this.
- DI Robert Lewis: Nobody does.
- DI Robert Lewis: The team are asking the obvious questions. What time did they go to bed last night? Did they see anything, hear anything, murder anyone?
- Diane Turnbull: I know what people like you think of do-gooders
- DI Robert Lewis: What makes you think I'm a people like me?
- Nicky Turnbull: You can take the lad out of Tyneside, you cannot take Tyneside out of the lad.
- DI Robert Lewis: Sorry. I've never been much of a professional Northerner.
- DS James Hathaway: What's the hotel's policy?
- Paul: ...It's a bit of a grey area.
- DS James Hathaway: Describe the colour "grey" to me in this context.
- David Harvey: I was only in second year when you left, but I remember your nickname.
- DS James Hathaway: Didn't know I had one.
- David Harvey: You were called WC.
- DS James Hathaway: I am scared to ask.
- David Harvey: It was short for Wolfgang Christ. The theory was you couldn't decide whether you wanted to be Mozart or Jesus. And now you're a policeman.
- DS James Hathaway: I compromised.
- DI Robert Lewis: He's everything I hate.
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: Everything?
- DI Robert Lewis: Celebrity criminal and professional Geordie.
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: That's only two things.
- DI Robert Lewis: It's enough to keep *me* going.
- DI Robert Lewis: Oh, I'd like to nick that professor!
- DS James Hathaway: On what charge?
- DI Robert Lewis: Being a pompous sod. And I'd burn this place down. I'm going to prison; I'll feel more at home in prison.
- Caroline Morton: You must know the golden rule of whoring.
- [Hathaway waits for the answer]
- Caroline Morton: Give good value... and insist on the going rate.