- [It is early morning. Banks has just arrived at the scene of a brutal murder. Morton and the SOCOs are already there]
- DI Helen Morton: You'll want overshoes, DCI Banks. It's like an abattoir in there. I have frontal lobe in my instep.
- DCI Banks: As greetings go, DI Morton, I've had warmer.
- DI Helen Morton: Morning.
- DCI Banks: [ironically] I'm thinking of starting a campaign. Anyone convicted of a serious crime committed during anti-social hours automatically gets another five years added on to their sentence. I'm sure your husband would agree.
- Pamela Jefferies: I think he felt trapped by how people saw him, and perhaps how he saw himself. And maybe came to realise that he wasn't actually being true to who he really was. He was still controlled, though. I mean, he must have been, to keep two lives going. "Let's keep it in the moment," that's what he used to say. Maybe that's why he loved music so much, because... it holds you in the moment.
- [At a murder scene, a SOCO has found a piece of the page of a magazine used as makeshift wadding in a shotgun cartridge. Banks and Morton are examining it under a magnifying glass]
- DCI Banks: Is that a...
- SOCO: I think it is.
- DCI Banks: And that could be a...
- DI Helen Morton: Penis. First time I've seen one through a magnifying glass! You?
- DCI Banks: I'm more interested in the sub machine-gun standing next to it.