- DS Kenny Forfar: You seeing anyone yourself these days?
- DS Peter Livingstone: [Gives DS Forfar a sidelong glance] Jim Taggart.
- DS Kenny Forfar: Does he ever smile?
- DS Peter Livingstone: Yes. But you have to make an appointment.
- DCI Jim Taggart: Get your skates on Peter. We've got a severed leg near the Erskine bridge.
- DS Peter Livingstone: Human?
- DCI Jim Taggart: No. The kind you put mint sauce on.
- DCI Jim Taggart: I don't make a habit of talking to people with the manners of pigs - but sometimes the job demands it.
- DS Peter Livingstone: What do you think he is? A sorting-house for every troubled female in Glasgow?