- DI Robert Lewis: Doctor, you bring me all this because you secretly love me.
- Dr. Laura Hobson: If I bring you anything at all, Lewis, you cocky sod, it's because I secretly love Hathaway.
- Malcolm Croft: [shaking Lewis and Hathaway's hands] Malcolm Croft, Headmaster. Now, look, the first thing I want you to be absolutely clear about is that here at Parktown, we are a very broad church.
- DI Robert Lewis: Glad to hear it.
- Malcolm Croft: We have 14 Muslims in the school and 32 children of mixed parentage. I do feel it's important to foreground this.
- DI Robert Lewis: [bell rings] Quite.
- Malcolm Croft: You should be entirely confident of the pastoral care your child will receive here.
- DS James Hathaway: [to Lewis, taking his hand] Darling, I think you should explain.
- DI Robert Lewis: What's the matter with you? Been crying?
- DS James Hathaway: I always cry when I know I'm going to spend the day with you, Sir.
- DI Robert Lewis: Hathaway, find me some dead people!
- DS James Hathaway: Sir?
- DI Robert Lewis: Crime! Now! Or I shall discharge. And it won't be a pretty sight.
- [Lewis is questioning Le Plassiter who is barely conscious and very close to death]
- DI Robert Lewis: Don't pretend to be dead: it's bad manners and it won't work!
- Edward le Passiter: Why are you here?
- [He asks Hathaway before continuing]
- Edward le Passiter: Oh don't tell me. It's because Lewis is afraid I might use words with more than two syllables.
- DI Robert Lewis: Yea, you already said syllable I might have to lie down.
- Ch. Supt. Innocent: [Innocent sternly admonishes Lewis] You get this sorted, Lewis. You and Boy bloody Wonder. You do it right now and without the slightest trace of impropriety, or I will have you back in a tall hat pedalling a pushbike before you can say "Where's my pension?" Have you got that?
- DI Robert Lewis: The gist, ma'am. Absolutely.
- Lucas Hayward: I was always taught that being polite to policemen is the only way to make them go away.
- Edward le Passiter: Why should I tell you anything?
- DS James Hathaway: You can't go to your death unshriven. Your soul must be clean
- Edward le Passiter: [Le Passiter laughs wheezily] Do I detect the whiff of Papism at my bedside? How delightful.
- Malcolm Croft: I can't believe this is happening.
- DI Robert Lewis: I've met stranger people in stranger places.
- DI Robert Lewis: Dr. Edward Le Plassiter. Regius Professor of Jurisprudence. You know what that means?
- DS James Hathaway: The moral integrity of the law. Whether ir not it has any.
- DI Robert Lewis: It means he's a stonking great cheese.
- Dr. Laura Hobson: You will observe the cigarette is unlit. Have you ever seen me smoke before?
- [Lewis shakes his head]
- Dr. Laura Hobson: No! It is merely an indicator of stress. If I light the cigarette you know I am about to scream.
- [She returns the cigarette to the box, and the box to her pocket]
- Ch. Supt. Innocent: Speaking in public, Lewis, is a duty a senior officer is expected to discharge. Without fuss.