- DC Endeavour Morse: What are they like, the staff on Fosdick?
- Lyle Capper: Well, Sister Clodagh's a bit of a tartar. Sister MacMahon, that is. You wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of her. Sir Merlyn - a great man. All the doctors quake in their boots when he's on his rounds.
- DC Endeavour Morse: What about the rest of them?
- Lyle Capper: Well, then, there's Nurse Byron - Flora. She's very nice. Always makes you a cup of tea if you ask. Nurse Mills - Jo-Beth. Well, the place would fall apart without her. She tends to look after the younger nurses. Little Student Nurse Daisy Bennett. She's very keen. But she does tend to get in the most awful scrapes. Course, most of them are potty about Dr Powell. Except for Sister Clodagh, of course. She's married to the job. I think she may have been engaged once, but... I suppose everyone's got their own secret sadness, haven't they?
- DC Endeavour Morse: I suppose. What's yours?
- Lyle Capper: Flat feet
- Terence Bakewell: [confronting Bright when they are both patients in the same ward] Don't fool yourself. You might have a nice house and sit on the Bowls Club committee, but, when it comes down to it, we're just two cheeks on the same arse.
- Monica Hicks: [saying goodbye to Morse after their first meeting since their break-up] Treat the next one better!
- WPC Shirley Trewlove: [after seeing Morse talking to Caroline] Who was that you were talking to on the ward?
- DC Endeavour Morse: Oh, I knew her daughter when I was Oxford.
- WPC Shirley Trewlove: Come on. "I knew her daughter when I was Oxford" - and? You can't just leave it there.
- DC Endeavour Morse: Maybe when I know you better.
- WPC Shirley Trewlove: Did she break your heart?
- DC Endeavour Morse: We were engaged to be married. And then we weren't. There. So now you know all my secrets.
- DC Endeavour Morse: How's Edgar?
- Caroline Bryce-Morgan: No change. Why do they say that? I have no idea. He's changed utterly. He's changed beyond all recognition.
- DC Endeavour Morse: I suppose they mean in his condition.
- Caroline Bryce-Morgan: I'm aware of what they mean. It is good of you to come. We don't see eye to eye. Why would you be kind?
- DC Endeavour Morse: Because life is too short. It was all such a long time ago.
- Caroline Bryce-Morgan: Laying ghosts?
- DC Endeavour Morse: Yeah, perhaps. Some places exert an influence far beyond their due.
- Caroline Bryce-Morgan: People, too.
- DC Endeavour Morse: Yes. Yes. If you let them.
- Sir Merlyn Chubb: [doing his rounds] Bed Ten. Where's Mr. Greely?
- Dr. Dean Powell: He died, sir, in the night.
- Sir Merlyn Chubb: [shocked] I saw him yesterday - he was well on the mend.
- Dr. Dean Powell: He was quite elderly, sir.
- Sir Merlyn Chubb: He was my age.
- Burt Talbot: [trying to ingratiate himself with Bakewell] What's your line, then?
- Terence Bakewell: Murder. I get an uncontrollable urge to kill nosey-parkers. Ta for the grapes.
- DS Jim Strange: [after Morse had put a birdcage with a parrot in it on his desk] It can't stop here. It's a nick, not a ruddy pet shop.
- DI Fred Thursday: [finding Win silent and withdrawn] I'd do anything for you, you know that. But I can't fix a thing if I don't know what it is I'm trying to fix.
- Staff Nurse Jo-Beth Mills: Heaven knows we don't get paid much, but one doesn't go into nursing for the money.
- DC Endeavour Morse: It's a calling, I suppose.
- Staff Nurse Jo-Beth Mills: Yes. If you like. And policing? What's that?
- DC Endeavour Morse: A failing.
- Dr. Dean Powell: [as Sir Merlyn finishes a surgical procedure in the operating theater] Would you like me to close?
- Sir Merlyn Chubb: [emphatically] No. I'd like my patient's chances of survival to be better than even.
- DC Endeavour Morse: You probably don't remember Molly Keenan's cousin at all, do you? The young girl who rang the bell - only nobody came...
- Dr. Dean Powell: No.
- DC Endeavour Morse: No. But she remembers you. Both of you.
- DI Fred Thursday: [after three murders of underworld figures] I don't care who they are - they're not taking liberties! Not here.
- DC Endeavour Morse: [commiserating with Mrs. Bryce-Morgan over her husband's death] Edgar was always very good to me.
- Caroline Bryce-Morgan: He always had a weakness for failures.
- DI Fred Thursday: [annoyed at having to take over Bright's job for a few days] What do I know about flying a desk?
- DI Fred Thursday: [talking to a superior on the telephone] I'll get on it right away, sir. Of course, sir. Yes, sir. No, sir.
- [hangs up phone]
- DI Fred Thursday: Three bags full, sir.
- Lyle Capper: [talking to a corpse] There you go then, Mr. Greely. You just rest up here a bit. Bit of company for you there, look.