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- Attorney Sam Breen: But there's no way on God's green earth Mary will ever know the reason why, not from any of us.
- Jessica Fletcher: Nor from me, Sam. She's been hurt enough already.
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- Minister: And as we will all miss him, his loss will be most deeply felt by his beloved daughter, Mary, and her husband-to-be, Art Merrick, by Jack's younger brother, Timothy Carver, and his close and inseparable friends, Doc Wallace, Sam Breen, and Bill Carmody. And now we commit the body of our friend, John Carver, to the earth. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen.