- Leoric: Please accept our sympathies.
- Arzon: But what does this have to do with us, Merklynn?
- Witterquick: Yes, *we* didn't release them.
- Ectar: Obviously, he wants *us* to track them down.
- Merklynn: The fact of the matter is that I could make it worth your while to track them down.
- Leoric: Well... not this time, Merklynn. I can't risk my men on a wizard-hunt. Besides, we really don't need anything; our staffs our fully charged with magic, our cities are thriving...
- Merklynn: The status of your cities could change.
- Feryl: That's not fair either.
- Merklynn: *I* am not fair.
- Cryotek: [chuckling] It's funny how the whole world can change and yet Ectar is still a cop. And that dwarf will always be a stoolie.
- Ectar: I suggest we release one of the wizards as a diversion.
- Feryl: Then release Falkama. He's getting on my nerves.
- Leoric: No. The Darkling Lords don't want *him*.
- Witterquick: I've kind of gotten to like Bolgavus.
- Wizasquizar: Surely you jest. It's dangerous out there.
- Cryotek: [picking him up to force him away] It's more dangerous in here.
- Cindarr: [after being catapulted to land in a sitting position on Wizasquizar] Hope I didn't squash you.
- Darkstorm: Is the Lost Shrine in a mountain?
- Wizasquizar: Yes, in a *tall* mountain.
- Cindarr: [not getting it] But there are no mountains around.
- Benny the Con: Right, now, place your bets.
- Ectar: [striding over] *I'll* bet. I'll bet you're goin' to tell me some things I want to know.
- Benny the Con: I didn't break no laws here.
- Ectar: [lifting him by the throat] Only because there *are* no laws here.
- Benny the Con: I-I never did anything. I-It was that Reekon guy. He set me up.
- Ectar: Oh? Funny thing. I'm looking for Reekon right now. Him and the Darkling Lords.
- Ectar: [after being swallowed by a gelatinous monster] As we used to say in the crime business, this will be an inside job.
- Leoric: [to the creature who swallowed them they threaten with burning if he doesn't release them] Now - open wide!
- Wizasquizar: OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE-EE!
- Mortredd: What idiocy are you babbling?
- Recording voice: [as the overheads lights brighten by degrees] Animal escape. Animal escape. Alert park wardens at once...
- Darkstorm: Whatever he said awakened the long-dead security system.
- Recording voice: [Reekon in animal form is dropped into a labeled glass case] The lizard has been returned.
- Mortredd: [as he's being carried off by one of the zoo-security robots in mollusk form] Darkstorm, I will release you, before they imprison you, or - or cook you in garlic and butter, or something.
- Owl of Wisdom: What do you want of me?
- Leoric: I am about to be captured. What do I do?
- Owl of Wisdom: Resist all temptation to do what you *would* do.
- Leoric: I think we can earn our own gold. We need not be paid. We have benefited from our deeds and that is enough.