- Constable Henry Higgins: [in the cellar] Anything in particular you're looking for, sir?
- Detective William Murdoch: I don't know, Henry.Something happened down here 17 years ago. Something terrible, I suspect.
- Constable Henry Higgins: Well, it all seems on the up and up now, sir. Cement floor and all. You don't often see them in houses this old, do you, sir?
- Detective William Murdoch: [realizing the floor has been paved over] No, no, you don't. In fact, I'll wager this was poured after the house was built. Henry, I want a couple of men with sledge hammers and shovels to excavate the ground under this floor. Tell them to be very careful when they dig.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: [to Murdoch about the chief suspect's multiple personalities] Look, I don't care if this is coming from Maddy, Charlotte, or the latest incarnation of Genghis Khan - just get the truth out of her!
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: I've got a new rhyme
- Detective William Murdoch: Oh?
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Bobby Edwards took an axe and gave his stepather forty wacks. Bastard bloody deserved it.
- Detective William Murdoch: That doesn't rhyme, sir.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: It's better that way,
- Detective William Murdoch: This doesn't seem calculated. This woman's clearly disturbed, sir.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Of course, she is. Nobody sticks an axe through Daddy's ribs unless they've got a few bats in the belfry.