- Professor Angus Rawbone: [Leaving a house with a dead body, presumably after the initial on-site examination] Between 2 and 4 this morning, to save you asking; have to wait for the PM
- [Post Mortem = autopsy]
- Professor Angus Rawbone: for anything further
- DI Robert Lewis: First impressions?
- Professor Angus Rawbone: Throat cut from left to right, finger marks on the lips and chin? I think we can discount suicide
- DS James Hathaway: You know, what he lacks in bedside manner, he more than makes up for in basic incivility
- DS James Hathaway: There's been threats; stem cell research. Not overly popular with some of the more spiritually certain.
- DS James Hathaway: [Talking to Belsarius about the end of his romance with Ligiea] She ended it?
- Dr. Nicolae Belisarius: Next she says she wants to end things. Says she could never make me happy, which, of course, means I could never make her happy.
- DI Robert Lewis: It's stem cells you're involved in here? Is that right?
- Professor Rufus Strickfaden: With a view to the treatment of progressive degenerative illnesses, that's right. Hello. Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, MS.
- DI Robert Lewis: Important work.
- Professor Rufus Strickfaden: We like to think so.
- DI Robert Lewis: But not without its critics.
- [pause]
- DI Robert Lewis: Professor Strickfaden?
- Professor Rufus Strickfaden: Science is about the pursuit of truth. That *always* threatens someone.
- DS James Hathaway: If I might ask, sir, where were you on Halloween?
- Alec Pickman: Was it a weeknight? Uh, drunk and incapable. Unless, of course, it was the weekend, in which case I'd have been... oh yeah, drunk and incapable.
- DS James Hathaway: Last night?
- Alec Pickman: I would refer my honorable friend to the answer I gave some moments ago.
- Alec Pickman: There's a rather disagreeable whiff of the Presbytery about you, Lewis. I'd hate to lower your opinion of me.
- DI Robert Lewis: On that particular, sir, you might find yourself a bit hard pressed.
- DI Robert Lewis: [after Alec has gone off about Peter] You didn't like him?
- Alec Pickman: Best friend I ever had!