- Donald Ulyses MacDonald: [referring to Molly's 60th birthday party] I will help in any capacity. Perhaps I could help with the car parking?
- Paul Bowman-MacDonald: Great idea, Uncle! And we can put King Herod in charge of the creche!
- Ewan Brodie: Check that bread out, Paul, local supplier wants to start again.
- Paul Bowman-MacDonald: [Paul attempts to cut the burnt, hard, black bread] We used to drive tanks made out of this!
- Ewan Brodie: Makes sense to buy from a local!
- [Paul chucks the bread in the bin]
- PC Callum McIntyre: December 23rd of that year, exceeding speed limit at 82 miles per hour in Park Lane, London.
- Donald Ulyses MacDonald: One should not be late for luncheon at the palace!
- PC Callum McIntyre: The following day, Christmas Eve, ignoring police traffic signs relating to a one-way street.
- Donald Ulyses MacDonald: I was only going one way dammit!
- PC Callum McIntyre: Which brings us onto 1981. January 1st, Prince's Street, Edinburgh. Driving in excess of the legal speed limit whilst playing the bagpipes!
- Donald Ulyses MacDonald: It was Hogmanay!
- Lexie MacDonald: Amanda. You're here early.
- Amanda MacLeish: Actually I never left.
- Lexie MacDonald: Shouldn't you be away executing somebody?
- Amanda MacLeish: I'll go polish my axe!
- Paul Bowman: Never had you down as a team player, Isobel.
- Isobel Anderson: I could be, with the right person.
- [Paul passes Isobel a flask, their fingers touch]
- Paul Bowman: And who might that be?
- Isobel Anderson: I once thought you and I, maybe. Bit late for that now, I suppose.
- [Lucy walks in and interrupts them]
- Molly MacDonald: Listen, mush! I can boogie with the best, dance 'til dawn and drink 'til doomsday! So don't give me this old routine! Or I shall give you an injury from which you may never recover!
- Lady Dorothy Trumpington-Bonnet: Didn't you know? Amanda is married to a businessman twice her age who spends most of his time in the South of France.
- Amanda MacLeish: Do you have a problem with me being here?
- Lexie MacDonald: No.
- Amanda MacLeish: Good.
- Lexie MacDonald: But I think your husband might.
- Amanda MacLeish: You want a homely little life with a homely little wife... you don't want me at all, you want someone like... Lexie.
- Isobel Anderson: You don't know what it is to let your hair down, do you?
- Paul Bowman: Don't I?
- Isobel Anderson: Well, when was the last time you went for something you really wanted and not something you had to?
- [Paul kisses Isobel]
- Paul Bowman: I'd better go...
- Paul Bowman: You gave Donald the questions? Why?
- Lucy Ford: Because I didn't want you to be laird. I thought that if you weren't, we'd have a chance... er, it's complicated.
- Paul Bowman: Not for me, it wasn't. You knew what this meant to me, Lucy.
- Lucy Ford: I did it because I love you, and I wanted us to be together. And I knew that if you loved me, I could tell you and you'd forgive me.
- Paul Bowman: I'm not sure I can forgive you.
- Lucy Ford: 'Cos you don't love me, do you?
- Paul Bowman: Lucy, I wanted to. It's just...
- Lucy Ford: It's just Isobel, isn't it? It's always been Isobel.
- Paul Bowman: I'm really sorry.
- Lucy Ford: So am I. So, that's us quits then.
- Paul Bowman-MacDonald: [Paul sees Isobel running past the marquee] She told me she was busy!
- Chester Grant: She is busy. Playing you like a big old fish. In a kilt! Take it from me, son, that girl's not good for you.
- Paul Bowman-MacDonald: You know how it is, Chester. If a thing's worth having, it's worth chasing.
- [Paul sets off to run after Isobel]
- Donald Ulyses MacDonald: I'm being held against my will! It's the front of my human rights!
- Paul Bowman-MacDonald: I think you'll find you sacrificed those when you got in the Guinness World Book of Records for the most driving offences ever!