- Tracey Blake: [about Jono Blake] I used to think it was my fault.
- James Steel: What do you mean?
- Tracey Blake: That I wasn't a good enough mum. That I didn't deserve a kid. But that was before all this gene stuff. Now I know there was nothing I could have done. It wouldn't have made any difference. The papers are right-he's a monster.
- James Steel: Is that what you really think about your own son?
- Tracey Blake: You heard what they're saying about him: his genes are rotten. He's wrong.
- James Steel: How many months pregnant are you?
- James Steel: Seven.
- James Steel: So, based on your belief in genes, we should take that baby from your arms the second it's born and lock it up.
- Tracey Blake: No!
- James Steel: Well, surely genetics dictates that your next child will be a monster, too.
- Tracey Blake: It'll be different this time. I won't make the same mistakes I made with him.
- James Steel: No further questions.
- James Steel: [about Beatrice McArdle] I know her; she's up to something. That defence is way too simple.
- George Castle: Just because you two used to do the headboard shuffle, doesn't mean that you have any insight into how she runs her defences, nowadays.
- Alesha Phillips: What, you and her?
- James Steel: Yeah, it was a long time ago. Thanks for that, George.
- [Bernice Bradley searches a desk covered in files and paperwork]
- Ronnie Brooks: This is what I always worried the inside of my head looked like.
- Bernice Bradley: [as she hands Danny's file to him] One person's mess is another person's filing system.
- Matt Devlin: [about their victim] No wallet, no ID, no mobile.
- Ronnie Brooks: So not a known local. What do you reckon, lad's walked off the train and got his first and last welcome to London?
- Matt Devlin: Well, he was what, 12? 13? Someone should tell these kids the streets aren't lined with well-wishers.
- Ronnie Brooks: If the street's the alternative, makes you wonder what they're running away from.
- Alesha Phillips: McArdle's asked for the jury to be discharged. She's changed the basis of her plea.
- George Castle: She's put in an application?
- Alesha Phillips: For a retrial. The new defence she's running is that Jono is not guilty by reason of mental defect.
- George Castle: [laughing] What? She'll never make it home on an insanity defence.
- Alesha Phillips: She's not saying he's insane. She's running non-insane automatism, an involuntary act committed while not conscious of actions taken. Most of Jono's blood relatives are in prison. Her defence is that Jono is genetically predisposed to violent behaviour.
- James Steel: [scoffing] Oh, she can't run that. It's outrageous. We'd have every criminal in the country making the same case. What's she playing at?
- George Castle: "Don't blame me, blame my genes." It's bold, I'll give her that. But let's not panic. No sane judge would let that get beyond a hearing. So, who did we draw?
- Alesha Phillips: Uh, Judge DeMarco.
- George Castle: Oh, God. Let's panic.
- Beatrice McArdle: [after Jono pleads guilty] It was a defense. I never thought for a second that he'd actually believe it.
- Ronnie Brooks: Nobody has proved that Agnew was battering Danny, and even if he was, it doesn't mean he's a murderer.
- Matt Devlin: But look, look at his body language. I mean, he's sitting on his hands! It's classic. He's hiding something.
- Ronnie Brooks: Matt, what are you going to charge him with, bad posture?
- James Steel: None of us are defined by our genes.
- Jono Blake: I am. I'm evil.
- James Steel: That's too easy. Because it would mean that nobody else has any responsibility.
- Ronnie Brooks: [helping the boys move a trampoline through the yard] Is anything behind me?
- Jono Blake: Yeah, your youth.
- Bernice Bradley: We don't want you to say anything you're uncomfortable with, Andy. Lord knows I've drilled the same thing into my own son. He's about your age actually. I always told him 'If you ever get picked up by the police, don't sit there making things up'. But they forget police have DNA, fingerprints, CCTV, they'll find out if you're lying.