- [Alan Banks and Annie Cabbot had planned a romantic night at home but were interrupted by Bank's daughter; they come into work together the following morning]
- [Annie yawns]
- DI Helen Morton: Late night, was it?
- DS Annie Cabbot: Hardly slept a wink.
- [Ken Blackstone sniggers]
- DCI Alan Banks: She means with the baby.
- DI Helen Morton: What else could she mean?
- [to Banks]
- DI Helen Morton: There's a Mrs Juliet Doyle here to see you - your old neighbor. She's very upset so I've put her in your office out of the way.
- DS Annie Cabbot: [sarcastically] That was nice of you.
- DI Helen Morton: If I'd been blessed with a bedside manner, I'd have become a nurse.
- DS Annie Cabbot: [drily] The NHS was spared.