- Detective William Murdoch: [Disturbed by Braxton's suicide] He had a beautiful home... wife... child. Not only does he throw all of that away but condemns himself to eternal damnation by commiting suicide.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: Perhaps he felt that Hell was no worse than the torment he was living in.
- Detective William Murdoch: There's always hope.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: He was living a sham. Everything was a lie. Secretly he was in love with someone he could never be with, and furthermore that person was about to marry someone else.''
- Detective William Murdoch: Yes, but to kill himelf!
- Dr. Julia Ogden: Really, William. I'm surprised at your closed-mindedness!
- Detective William Murdoch: Even leaving the Bible aside...
- Dr. Julia Ogden: Yes, could we?
- Detective William Murdoch: It goes against nature.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: Oh, rubbish! Nature is full of omnisexual behavior. Have you never seen male dogs at play?
- Detective William Murdoch: But those are dogs.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: We're all animals, William. Behaving as nature intended. If God didn't want us to express our desires, then why would he give us desires in the first place?
- Detective William Murdoch: To test our resolve.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: At whose expense? Surely *this* is not God's plan.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: [Speaking of Wendell's attempt at a marriage of convenience] Nothing like a sanctified marriage to remove the whiff of pansy from the air.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: [Putting a flower in Murdoch's lapel] Pansies! Symbol of fairies the world over!
- Detective William Murdoch: [Seeing Thomas Merrick lying motionless on a bed] What have you done to him?
- Eunice McGinty: [Smiling with amusement and echoing a line spoken earlier] Heroin... it really is a wonder drug.
- Detective William Murdoch: Jeffrey. If I were you, I wouldn't play any more tennis on Monday evenings. In fact, I think your entire group should take up another sport.
- [last lines]
- Priest: William. The man of the cloth you came to me about, what did you decide to do?
- Detective William Murdoch: I said nothing