- DI Robert Lewis: Do you know what I'm doing? Trying to think like Morse.
- DS James Hathaway: [facetiously] Does that mean we're going to the pub?
- DI Robert Lewis: Bow down before the Midnight Addiction
- DS James Hathaway: Absolutely
- [discarding his cigarette]
- DS James Hathaway: Well I... use the word "Absolutely" in a purely private sense, meaning I've no idea what you're talking about
- DS James Hathaway: You got a minute, Peter?
- Peter: Actually, no I haven't
- DS James Hathaway: I gather you're reading
- [Oxfordspeak for Studying]
- DS James Hathaway: Classics, so you'll appreciate the concept of the rhetorical question
- [shows Peter his badge]
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: So what are you actually going to do, Lewis, now?
- DI Robert Lewis: Now, ma'am? I'm going o think.
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: You're going to think?
- DI Robert Lewis: Yeah, ma'am. As a means of solving a crime it can prove useful.
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: Ah, there you are
- DI Robert Lewis: Yes ma'am; you sent for us
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: Warrant. Needless to say - though, in my experience, the needless needs announcing through a loud-hailer - this must be handled with extreme delicacy. If the press get it, the Chief Constable is going to make my life very disagreeable, and if my life is disagreeable, your life is going to be absolute screaming hell. What am I saying here, Hathaway?
- DS James Hathaway: You're saying it's preferable not to alert the press, ma'am
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: Your job is to shout that in the Inspector's ear, whenever he seems to be about to do something rash
- Dr. Laura Hobson: Oh, pull yourself together Lewis. You're only young once, and that was a long time ago. I'll buy you a drink; you can bang on about how perfect everything was in your day... When I say "buy you a drink", I should point out that I don't actually have any cash
- Reverend Armstrong: [Referring to his notes about firearms discharges on Sundays] Thirteen separate incidents - thirteen separate complaints. And what's been done about it? Sweet Felicity Arkwright
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: Richie Maguire contributes half a million Pounds
- [Sterling - UK currency]
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: each year to an organization which will very probably look after you, Lewis, in your declining years. Now that does not protect him from our scrutiny, but it does afford him a certain professional courtesy
- DI Robert Lewis: [Viewing Lucas' body] Look at those piercings. What sort of parent would allow their kid to do that?
- Dr. Laura Hobson: You're going to wish you never asked that.
- DI Robert Lewis: All she's done since I got her in is make one phone call to the Randolph
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: Who'd she speak to?
- DI Robert Lewis: the Hotel switchboard cannot divulge that information
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: They'll find they bloody well can if I go round there
- DI Robert Lewis: Not necessary; I know who it was
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: Oh god; I get so worried when you do this inscrutable thing
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: What was that?
- [Turning exasperatedly toward Hathaway, who has not said anything at all]
- DS James Hathaway: I didn't speak Ma'am.
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: You didn't
- [She acknowledges pointedly]
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: and I Heard you NOT doing it!
- Chief Superintendent Jean Innocent: [as Lewis walks out of the interview room, having solved the case. She turns to Hathaway with a sigh] Don't say it.
- DS James Hathaway: I won't Ma'am.
- [He sighs as well and continues]
- DS James Hathaway: But, he is a bloody genius.