- Lady Minerva: I only know what the cards tell me.
- Detective William Murdoch: Begging your pardon, but cards don't speak. They're made in a printing shop.
- Lady Minerva: Do you believe in God, Detective?
- Detective William Murdoch: Of course.
- Lady Minerva: God spoke to Moses through a burning bush, did he not?
- Detective William Murdoch: What of it?
- Lady Minerva: If God spoke to Moses through a burning bush, why shouldn't he speak through cards? Are you so arrogant as to assume you know the ways of God?
- Detective William Murdoch: No, I just don't think God speaks through you.
- Constable George Crabtree: You ever dream about joining the circus as a boy?
- Detective William Murdoch: No, I didn't, George.
- Constable George Crabtree: I did. It's because I'm an adventure seeker, which is why I became a cop apparently. At least that's what Lady Minervaa said.
- Detective William Murdoch: Lady Minerva?
- Constable George Crabtree: She's the gypsy fortune teller.
- Detective William Murdoch: I highly doubt she's a true fortune teller, George.
- Constable George Crabtree: Oh, sir, I believe she is. She knew I was a foundling, and she wasn't guessing. It was in the cards.
- Detective William Murdoch: Did she have anything relevant to say about the case?
- Constable George Crabtree: She believes the tiger is innocent.
- Detective William Murdoch: All animals are innocent, George, humans excepted.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Nobody commits murder in my jail cells and gets away with it!
- [Looking at Athens the monkey]
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Understand? Hah?
- Detective William Murdoch: [Speaking on Murdoch's theory that the now dead tiger was being deliberately starved] So, someone could have taken the food away, then...
- Bob Selby: I don't see how, Detective. If a hand came between Saber and his food, guaranteed that hand would be a goner.
- Count Leoline: [speaking of the murdered Kitty] I would have given my life for hers.
- Detective William Murdoch: Well, Count, you may yet get that chance.