- Mark North: Why are you here now?
- Alice Morgan: Because, I'm sorry.
- Mark North: No, you're not.
- Alice Morgan: No, no I'm not. I was just trying to empathize. I'm here because this has gone just far enough. And what I need you to do now is pick up that phone and withdraw the complaint.
- Mark North: And if I refuse? What if somebody actually stood up to you and refused?
- Alice Morgan: Hmmm. Well then, I'd have to leave. And then one night, I'd have to come back.
- DS Justin Ripley: What you're doing is wrong.
- DCI John Luther: Yeah, I know.
- DS Justin Ripley: Why do it then?
- DCI John Luther: 'Cause it's right!
- [last lines]
- Zoe Luther: [to John] You're obsessive. You're driven. God knows you're misguided. What you never are is a liar. Not to me. Nor a coward.
- DCI John Luther: ...I really need to catch this man.
- Alice Morgan: More than you want to catch me?
- DCI John Luther: At the moment, yeah. I'm running out of time.
- Alice Morgan: Because, if I thought you were about to lose interest in me...
- [sighs]
- Alice Morgan: I'd be inconsolable.
- Alice Morgan: This man Burgess; he's just a naughty child, showing off. You already know his flaw, his compulsion to dominate, to be in control, and you already know how to exploit that.
- DCI John Luther: How?
- Alice Morgan: Oh, come on. Change the state of play.
- DCI John Luther: Yeah, well, I tried that with you, and I failed.
- Alice Morgan: Only just.
- Police Technician: [proud of his handy work] Beware of geeks bearing gifts.
- Lucien Burgess: Many, many women fantasize about being tied up, strangled, raped, eaten...
- DCI John Luther: You think so?
- Lucien Burgess: Oh, yeah. The more depraved the killer, the more women fawn on him.