- Chief Constable Giles: [explaining what is common to all prisoners] Stupidity, Crabtree, thought-stunting, bat blind stupidity is the sine qua non of incarceration.
- Constable George Crabtree: Wouldn't that include us?
- Chief Constable Giles: Indeed! But stupidity is relative; some have it in abundance, and others have comparatively little. As members of the latter category we have an advantage, and I suggest we use it.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: [looking at two sets of photos of a room] Spot the difference. What fun! You could make a game out of this.
- Chief Constable Giles: You're not a policeman any more, so stop behaving like one.
- Constable George Crabtree: That man who was killed: he's somehow connected to a woman by the name of Edna Brooks.
- Chief Constable Giles: Yes, I know who she is.
- Constable George Crabtree: You do?
- Chief Constable Giles: She's the reason you're in here, is she not? She killed her husband and you took responsibility for it.
- Constable George Crabtree: What makes you think *I* didn't kill him?
- Chief Constable Giles: If you'd been guilty you would have pled guilty. If you were both innocent, you would have pled not guilty. Instead you pled nolo contendere, no contest; the only plea that would close the case without forcing you to confess to a crime you didn't commit. You're either the most noble man I've ever met, or the stupidest. I can't quite decide which. Good luck to you.
- [last lines]
- Constable George Crabtree: When do you leave? Dr. Ogden told me you were going to England.
- Dr. Emily Grace: Two weeks and a day.
- Constable George Crabtree: You're counting down. That's a good sign; means you want to go.
- Dr. Emily Grace: I do.
- Constable George Crabtree: Well... to new beginnings, then.
- Dr. Emily Grace: New beginnings.
- [first lines]
- Prisoner: [pushes Crabtree] Copper, one of these days when their backs are turned, uh?
- [mimes slitting throat]
- Dr. Julia Ogden: I take it you didn't see his face.
- [attending to a wound at the back of Murdoch's head]
- Detective William Murdoch: How do you know that?
- Dr. Julia Ogden: Location of the wound. Your head was turned when the pipe hit you.
- Detective William Murdoch: You think it was a pipe?
- Dr. Julia Ogden: If it had an edge, I might be doing this on the morgue table.