- [PC Kershaw gives his verdict on Morse's car. Morse is not impressed!]
- PC Adrian Kershaw: It's a terrific piece of retro postmodern nostalgia.
- Dr. Millicent 'Millie' Van Buren: The institute of criminology has some really great archives here.
- Chief Inspector Morse: That's because Oxford has many scholars and not enough policemen.
- [talking about Sister Nessie]
- Adele Cecil: Do you think she comes from around Loch Ness?
- Chief Inspector Morse: Bottom of it, I should think!
- Chief Superintendent Strange: [entering Morse's hospital room] You got a temperature?
- Chief Inspector Morse: [annoyed] Everyone's got a temperature!
- Chief Inspector Morse: [to his doctor] To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
- [Sister Nessie interrupts Morse and Adele as they are talking. She needs to give Morse an injection]
- Sister Nessie MacLean: I need his buttocks.