- [first lines]
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: The secret is to make the bait look like dinner. That's why we use live ones.
- John Brackenreid: Does that hurt 'em?
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: It's a *worm*! You want to make it land with a plop. The plop grabs their attention; they think supper's landed.
- John Brackenreid: Why would a worm just go plop inthe middle of the river?
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Does it matter?
- Bobby Brackenreid: This is boring.
- [the inspector sighs]
- John Brackenreid: Worms live in the ground.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Who cares?
- Bobby Brackenreid: I-I got a bite.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Pull. Reel it in.
- John Brackenreid: It's a big one,
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: It's not boring now, is it?
- Bobby Brackenreid: It's really big!
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: I think it's snagged on something.
- [they reel in a body]
- Constable George Crabtree: [seeing the temple for the first time] Sir, it really does look like the Taj Mahal, doesn't it?
- Detective William Murdoch: Actually, George, it-it's more like the Hagia Sophia.
- Constable George Crabtree: Ah, yes, the church built by Emperor Justinian in the sixth century. The greatest in all of Christendom for over a thousand years.
- [Murdoch stares at him]
- Constable George Crabtree: Sir, I've been researching early Christianity for my new novel.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: The Holy Grail? In Markham? Ontario?
- Detective William Murdoch: We're positing a theory, sir.
- Dr. Iris Bajjali: A very =compelling theory.
- Detective William Murdoch: I'm not entirely convinced myself, but...
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Good! because it's bloody crackers. That's what King Arthur and his knights were after, isn't it?
- Detective William Murdoch: According to legend, yes.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Then what's it doing in bloody Markham?
- Dr. Iris Bajjali: What was it doing in bloody England?
- Constable George Crabtree: Sir, the novel that I'm working on now is about an archaeologist, but he's sort of a swashbuckling archaeologist.
- Detective William Murdoch: A swashbuckling archaeologist, George?
- Constable George Crabtree: Yes, sir, he's introverted but rugged; incredibly brave, but he has an Achilles heel.
- Dr. Iris Bajjali: What is it?
- Constable George Crabtree: Butterflies.
- [Murdoch gives him a look]
- Constable George Crabtree: He's terrified of them, and of course, at the end of the novel, he has to crawl into a cave full of them.
- Dr. Iris Bajjali: What sort of man is afraid of butterflies?
- Detective William Murdoch: Your point, George?
- Lillian Moss: [about Murdoch] Is that the man Dr. Ogden surrendered her political aspirations for?
- Dr. Emily Grace: He is.
- Lillian Moss: Bit of a stick-in-the-mud.