- Ifan Roberts: Nobody notices taxis. Get behind the wheel of a cab and you might as well be invisible. But we see everything.
- DS Endeavour Morse: [having discovered that the 8-millimetre film is not about ornithology as advertised, but a pornographic film] ; "Exotic Rare Birds"?
- Dorothea Frazil: For the one-in-the-hand brigade, I fancy, rather than the two-in-the-bush contingent.
- DS Endeavour Morse: Ah. Right...
- Dorothea Frazil: Happy to be of..."personal service".
- DS Endeavour Morse: Well, I'm not the fool I was.
- DCI Fred Thursday: I quite liked that fool. He hoped for the best in people.
- Dr. Max DeBryn: [after the death of Del Grady] Alcohol taken to excess is a notorious depressant, and we rarely make wise choices when inebriated.
- DS Endeavour Morse: [questioning Max's findings about the corpse of Dudley Lunn] Are we sure about the time of death? The glass on his watch is cracked and the hands are set to 6.50.
- Dr. Max DeBryn: Then the watch stopped ticking several hours before Mr. Lunn did. The body doesn't lie, Morse.
- DS Jim Strange: [after interrogating guests at the nudist colony] I've conducted some odd interviews in my time, matey, but, stone me, this morning's go takes the Garibaldi!
- Dr. Max DeBryn: [having examined the corpse of a priest shot dead in the confessional of his own church] I'm afraid Father Mahoney got rather more of an earful than he was expecting. Shot through the screen. Body temperature and rigor suggest he joined the Choir Invisible about fourteen to sixteen hours ago.
- DCI Fred Thursday: [confronting corrupt London cops] What you do in your sewer is your concern. You can be king of the shit-heap for all it means to me. But you set foot on my ground again and you'll all swing. I don't care whose coat you'e carrying.
- DCI Fred Thursday: [after DeBryn has proposed meeting at 2.30 p.m., rather than the usual 2 p.m., for the post-mortem results] A bit late for it, doctor?
- Dr. Max DeBryn: Steak and kidney at the "Eagle". I wouldn't want to rush that dissection.
- Dorothea Frazil: [finding Morse in a church confessional] What are you doing, skulking in there - looking for absolution?
- DS Endeavour Morse: It's too late for me. I'm past saving.
- DS Endeavour Morse: [after Ms. Frazil has scared him out of the confessional] Can't you wear a bell around your neck?
- Dorothea Frazil: Sorry! I've always been light of foot.
- Chief Superintendent Reginald Bright: If this is some lunatic murdering strangers at random for money, he's got 130,000 potential victims to choose from and we've no way of knowing who's going to be next!
- DCI Fred Thursday: We're who we are, Morse. Our nature - we can try to escape it, but it'll find us out in the end.
- Dr. Max DeBryn: [after another body has turned up shot] You seem to be making a habit of collecting these, Chief Inspector.
- Gwen Morse: [after Morse has opened his front door to her - music playing in background] There you are. It's a wonder you can hear anything with that racket. Well, don't just stand there gawping - fetch my bags in, and don't give him too much of a tip. I'm sure he brought us the long way around - and found every pothole on the way!