- Constable George Crabtree: The Rat Portage Thistles have this smooth-skating cover point, Hod Stewart. If the Ottawa Hockey Club can sign him next year, they'll win the Stanley Cup.
- Armstrong: Not possible, Crabtree. Too much infighting in Ottawa.
- Constable George Crabtree: Armstrong, you clearly don't know the first thing about hockey. Sometimes I wonder why I even talk...
- [sees Laurier]
- Sir Wilfred Laurier: I'm here to talk to Detective Murdoch.
- Armstrong: And you would be?
- Constable George Crabtree: For the love of Pete, Armstrong, it is the Prime Minister, man! Sir, right this way.
- [slaps paper on desk]
- Constable George Crabtree: That's called a newspaper, Armstrong. Try reading one.
- Detective William Murdoch: A million dollars in gold.
- Terrance Meyers: Actually it's only worth about three hundred and seventy thousand now, Murdoch. Market value of gold has diminished somewhat since the civil war.
- Detective William Murdoch: Hm. And what's the government going to do with all of this found money?
- Terrance Meyers: Oh, that's top secret.
- Detective William Murdoch: Really?
- Terrance Meyers: Not really, no. I have no idea; not my job.
- Detective William Murdoch: What exactly is your job, Mr. Meyers?
- Terrance Meyers: Oh, that is top secret.
- [last lines]
- Detective William Murdoch: Prime Minister.
- Sir Wilfred Laurier: Detective Murdoch. Inspector.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Sir.
- Sir Wilfred Laurier: I wanted to thank you personally. Your country owes you a great debt.
- Detective William Murdoch: Thank you, sir.
- Sir Wilfred Laurier: Gentlemen.
- [Laurier leaves]
- Terrance Meyers: You realize, of course, the country can never really know the debt it owes you?
- Detective William Murdoch: I'm aware of that, Mr. Meyers.
- Terrance Meyers: Hah! Excellent. Until we meet again?
- Detective William Murdoch: Oddly, this time, Mr. Meyers, I look forward to it.
- Terrance Meyers: Hmm.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Suppose the Americans proved that we tried to fund the Confederates and these Copperheads, do you really think they'd up and march across the border?
- Terrance Meyers: Probably not how it would happen. A bully doesn't pick a fight with a punch; he provokes it with an insult.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Most fistfights start with a shoving match.
- Terrance Meyers: Exactly. And then they would demand an apology; if we gave them one, we'd be admitting guilt. The yellow press would demand punitive action. Any further denial would be viewed as fresh provocation, and so it would go.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Until they're marching across the border.
- Terrance Meyers: And make no mistakes; they'd hand us our heads.
- Detective William Murdoch: [looking through the clothes of the decomposed body and discovering a derringer] Hmm, interesting...
- Detective William Murdoch: Perhaps he was expecting trouble.
- Detective William Murdoch: Indeed.
- Constable George Crabtree: [Murdoch finds a whiskey flask and then some chains] His pocket flask has held up well, and, sir, it appears those chains were wrapped around his entire body.
- Detective William Murdoch: In that case, George, however he went into the water, I'd say it's same to assume someone didn't want him coming back.
- Detective William Murdoch: It would appear our case from the past has taken a detour unto the present.