- Chief Inspector Morse: [Looking at Grayling in an evening dress at a dance] We were just saying you look very, um... off-duty tonight.
- Dr. Grayling Russell - Pathologist: [Approaching a dead body in a car in evening dress] Any blood, Inspector?
- Chief Inspector Morse: No.
- Dr. Grayling Russell - Pathologist: Good. This dress cost a fortune; I'd have had to step out of it.
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: [to Lewis] It's a question of 'find the frau.' There's a woman in there somewhere.
- [last lines]
- Dr. Grayling Russell - Pathologist: You owe me a dance. Oh, I can dance to anything.
- Chief Inspector Morse: Really?
- Dr. Grayling Russell - Pathologist: Yeah.
- Chief Inspector Morse: You should try dancing to the back end of Lohengrin sometime.
- Dr. Grayling Russell - Pathologist: No. No. Let's have something from Parsifal since we're going to a performance.
- Chief Inspector Morse: Uh, look, um... no, we're uh... we're not. I'm sorry, uh, it's uh...
- Dr. Grayling Russell - Pathologist: Oh.
- [she holds up two tickets]
- Chief Inspector Morse: Where did you get those!
- Dr. Grayling Russell - Pathologist: I wish I could say from a grateful patient, like any decent healer.
- Chief Inspector Morse: But how?
- Dr. Grayling Russell - Pathologist: By phoning the box office night and day to ask about returns. By diverting my technician from a highly complex analysis of stomach contents to go in to collect them. By then ask...
- Chief Inspector Morse: You're amazing. You shall have your wish.
- [takes an album from his collection and removes the record from the sleeve]
- Chief Inspector Morse: I don't believe this.
- Dr. Grayling Russell - Pathologist: Why, what have you found?
- Chief Inspector Morse: My lost tickets.
- [Morse explains to Camilla why he never married]
- Chief Inspector Morse: Too choosy, too hesitant, too lazy, too busy.
- [first lines]
- Rosemary Henderson: [answers telephone] Yes?
- George Henderson: Don't go, tonight. I beg you, Rosemary, please. Don't go.
- Rosemary Henderson: You are drinking again.
- George Henderson: Don't go, Rosemary. I'll come home.
- [pause]
- George Henderson: Please.
- [Rosemary hangs up]