- DS James Hathaway: [singing to a toddler] 'Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is... ' somewhat repetitive.
- DI Robert Lewis: Actually, Mrs. Addams, it was you we wanted to see if you don't mind. I would quite like a word.
- Honey Addams: [Walking while holding 2 year-old Josh] I was just about to get Joe down, so...
- DI Robert Lewis: That's all right. Sergeant Hathaway will keep an eye. He is good with kids. Used to be one himself.
- DI Robert Lewis: [Reading from a flyer] 'The Ashmolean presents "Marion Hammond: Fallen" question mark - a meditation on postlapsarian female gender identity.'
- DS James Hathaway: Opens this week. I've got tickets.
- DI Robert Lewis: The same Marion who left messages on her answering machine?
- DS James Hathaway: Professional iconoclast, social-photo anthropologist & cultural pundit.
- DI Robert Lewis: Oxford type, eh?
- DS James Hathaway: [With quiet emphasis] Oh, yeah.
- DS James Hathaway: [quoting from the Night Keeper comic series] "There's a line between good and evil no wider than a razor's edge"
- Silas Whittaker: [finishing the quote] "I hold the line. I am the line"
- DS James Hathaway: What do you actually study here, Dr. Ezrin?
- Dr. Joshua Ezrin: The parts of the brain relating to learning - how data is imprinted and stored in the memory. Anything you've ever felt is down to a microscopic variation in the electrochemical balance
- [Pointing to his brain]
- Dr. Joshua Ezrin: in here. Everything we are - love, hate, anger, jealousy, desire...
- DS James Hathaway: Desire?
- Dr. Joshua Ezrin: Ah, the need for a mate whereby we can propagate our mitochondrial DNA. It's about as basic an instinct as you can get.
- DS James Hathaway: And the soul?
- Dr. Joshua Ezrin: Sorry, there is no ghost in the machine. When the machine stops, we stop.
- DS James Hathaway: Maternal Instincts just this side of Medea.
- DI Robert Lewis: She's the one that did her kids in right?
- DS James Hathaway: [Honestly impressed] Well look at you.
- DI Robert Lewis: [Shrugging] Well I never know when you're going to bring a test.
- Marion Hammond: Then a couple of months ago I met someone. We were together for a while.
- DI Robert Lewis: So what happened?
- Marion Hammond: Well, he started making those 'I want to stick around' signals, and...
- DI Robert Lewis: And that's a bad thing?
- Marion Hammond: For me, yes. I'm not good with tomorrow.
- DI Robert Lewis: [to Marion] I did three years in vice in Newcastle before I came down. That tends to knock the choirboy out of the soul.
- Marion Hammond: [Looking admiringly at a provocative photo of Bess] Beautiful body!
- [to Lewis]
- Marion Hammond: I suppose 'body' means something entirely different to you. What's that like, being surrounded by dead people all the time?
- DI Robert Lewis: It's... a living.
- DI Robert Lewis: That launch of his was tethered with a length of polypropylene rope.
- DS James Hathaway: Moored. Horses are tethered; boats are moored.