- Adam Carter: [about planting a bug on a subject; the camera work suggests he's looking at Ruth] I have an idea, but it requires a woman who's ruthless, immoral, vicious, and utterly lacking in human sympathy. Not you, Ruth, terrifying weapon as you may be. No, I have someone completely different in mind.
- Zoe Reynolds: Who?
- Adam Carter: My wife.
- [last lines]
- Harry Pearce: [reading the W. B. Yeats poem, A Prayer for my Daughter] Considering that, all hatred driven hence, the soul recovers radical innocence.
- Danny Hunter: [explaining his presence in an office] I haven't got the internet at home. Some nights I let myself in to use it.
- Catherine Townsend: Searching for porn?
- Danny Hunter: Do I look like the kind of guy who would collude in the objectification of women's bodies?
- Catherine Townsend: In the sense that you look like a guy, yes.
- Harry Pearce: Bad business.
- Danny Hunter: Adam knew Patricia well.
- Harry Pearce: Always best to keep personal feelings out of these matters. How's it going on the campaign?
- Fiona Carter: You're not jealous, are you?
- Adam Carter: Excuse me, I've just had to watch my wife kissing a man who had the audacity to describe me as a middle ranking spook.
- Fiona Carter: You were loving it.
- [first lines]
- Patricia Norton: Enough! We have to sort this out before the start of the talks tomorrow. Both delegations have until 4 a.m. to agree my draft proposals on the holy sites of Jerusalem. If, by then, I don't receive messages from both delegations in my hotel, I shall go back to York and spend the week with my kids.
- Danny Hunter: Look, I went to the offices very late the other night to go through some computer records, and Catherine was there, too.
- Harry Pearce: Oh, well, that's conclusive. Prepare the electrodes, Ruth. We'll soon get it out of her.
- Danny Hunter: She was using a laptop.
- Zoe Reynolds: Which is usually how Swift communicates with his agent.
- Ruth Evershed: I know you're upset, Harry, but there's something else.
- Harry Pearce: Something else! That's your bloody middle name.
- Adam Carter: Shouting at Ruth won't help.
- Catherine Townsend: Scorsese is so overrated.
- Danny Hunter: Uh, you're wrong. He's a genius.
- Catherine Townsend: I'm wrong?
- Danny Hunter: Going on anywhere?
- Catherine Townsend: Why?
- Danny Hunter: I was just gonna offer to buy you a beer, and put you straight about Scorsese.
- Catherine Townsend: I would like to see you try.