- Colleen Powell: Knowing our Pixie, she could be anywhere between a hospital bed and the Amazon jungle.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: You wanted to see me, Governor?
- Colleen Powell: Yes. Apparently the women are finding the new Joan Ferguson a little hard to believe. So am I.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: It doesn't surprise me.
- Colleen Powell: Good. Because if you think this little performance of yours is going to win my support to have you stay here... you're wrong.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: I thought the department decided on whether or not I stay.
- Colleen Powell: Unfortunately, that's correct, but I'm warning you... put one foot wrong and they will be the first to hear about it.
- [Helen is watching as Phyllis and Bobbie look through undergrowth for something they can light up, their current buy-up having been cancelled]
- Helen Smart: You'll get yourself sick if you smoke that stuff.
- Bobbie Mitchell: Well, I'm desperate!
- Phyllis Hunt: I remember when I was a kid we used to smoke anything, even cabbage stalks. Mum caught us once, she gave us a shocking hiding! Reckoned it'd stunt our growth.
- Helen Smart: It did; right between your ears!
- Phyllis Hunt: Shut up, Smart-arse!
- Helen Smart: You've got no sense of humour!
- Colleen Powell: Don't tell me there's more?
- Meg Morris: It's nothing serious, it's just that Mason's a half an hour late back from work.
- Colleen Powell: [groans as she sits back at her desk and lights up a cigarette] Well you deal with it when she turns up, will you, Meg? I haven't got the strength.
- Meg Morris: Had a rough day?
- Colleen Powell: It's just that I feel the lunatics are running the asylum.
- Sonia Stevens: Knowing my husband doesn't mean you know me.
- Rick Manning: Oh, I wouldn't say that!
- Sonia Stevens: But you don't know what happened between Eddie and me, nobody does. I promise you, I never wanted to hurt him.
- Rick Manning: Well, a cop can only count on two things in his life: his mates and his family. And he made a big mistake counting on you.
- [goes to walk away]
- Sonia Stevens: It was you, wasn't it?
- Rick Manning: What?
- Sonia Stevens: You switched the lights in the library so Belinda could get at me?
- Rick Manning: [looks at her for a few seconds] Well... you can believe what you like. That story is not gonna get you very far.
- [turns and leaves]
- Meg Morris: [on Reb] Well, your music certainly hasn't softened that savage beast, Stanley.
- Stan Dobson: Give it time, you never know.
- Meg Morris: There wouldn't be *enough* time to change that one.
- [the police are looking into the apparent abscondence of Pixie Mason]
- Colleen Powell: You know what the real problem is, don't you, Sergeant? Nine times out of ten you bring them back.
- Meg Morris: You're looking very pleased with yourself.
- Erica Davidson: With good reason, I think. The new head of department has just been announced.
- Meg Morris: Anyone we know?
- Erica Davidson: Yes, actually. I'm taking the position.
- Sonia Stevens: I've been trying to work out who turned off the lights in the library. Now Mr Manning has got an alibi, and the only other person who had it in for me is... you.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Now why would I do a thing like that, Stevens?
- Sonia Stevens: Because you're worried the department wont swallow the new image of yours, with me dead, there's nobody else in the position that could tarnish it.
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: You do have a vivid imagination, Stevens. You're no threat to me.
- Sonia Stevens: But can you take that chance?
- Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson: Look, it wont be long before you realise you're quite wrong. Now if there's anything you want, providing it's legal, I'll be happy to oblige. Anything else, you're on your own.