- Agnes Macphail: Excuse me, Miss Haile, may I please have your autograph?
- Margaret Haile: Oh, how lovely of you to ask. You do know, young lady, that I didn't win the election?
- Agnes Macphail: I know. One day I'd like to run in an election too.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: Well, you never know; one day you may just win.
- Margaret Haile: To whom should I address this?
- Agnes Macphail: My name is Agnes. Agnes Macphail.
- [last lines]
- Edna Brooks: Thank you for meeting me, George.
- Constable George Crabtree: How's Simon?
- Edna Brooks: He's happy. His father's back.
- Constable George Crabtree: How are you?
- Edna Brooks: They told me he was dead, George.
- Constable George Crabtree: Edna...
- Edna Brooks: I mean, one minute I'm to be Mrs. George Crabtree and the next minute I'm back to being Mrs. Archibald Brooks, and... I don't know what to do, George.
- Constable George Crabtree: There's not anything you can do, Edna. Your husband's come back to you; Simon's father's returned to him. Your family's whole again.
- Edna Brooks: George, I...
- Constable George Crabtree: Edna, go back to your life and be happy. I want you to be happy.
- Edna Brooks: Good-bye, George.
- [first lines]
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: [on phone] I will do immediately. Thank you.
- [hangs up]
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Crabtree! In here!
- Constable George Crabtree: Sirs?
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Pack up your desk.
- Constable George Crabtree: Excuse me?
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: And buy a suit. Davis's Station House Number 3 wants you as his detective. You start in two weeks.
- Constable George Crabtree: Sir! Truly?
- Detective William Murdoch: Detective Crabtree. Congratulations.
- Constable George Crabtree: [laughing] Detective Crabtree. I like the sound of that.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: No time to celebrate; we've got to get to the polls. Margaret's waiting.
- Detective William Murdoch: Oh, sir, I already voted. In the advance polls, in case I was detained on an investigation.
- Terrence Meyers: This is an unfortunate turn of events. I personally recruited McCarthy out of McGill University. Trained him myself.
- Detective William Murdoch: Hm, perhaps *that* would explain his fate.
- Terrence Meyers: I need you to help me find his killer.
- Detective William Murdoch: Ah yes, I imagine it's a matter of
- Terrence Meyers, Detective William Murdoch: National Security.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: Keeping the polls closed is skewing the results as much as if we stayed open.
- Lillian Moss: But a fair election won't be possible as long as Margaret's name is absent from the ballot.
- Dr. Emily Grace: Why don't we write it in? On every ballot until the new ones arrive?
- Margaret Haile: Of course! The injunction only stated that the candidates' names be on the ballot. It didn't specify how they come to be there.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: Surely Mr.Snipe can have no objection. So who among us has the best penmanship?
- Dr. Julia Ogden: If our supporters can't vote, then no one should.
- Margaret Haile: What do you have in mind, Julia?
- [goes after Ogden]
- Detective William Murdoch: So your spy tasked with monitoring international movement of munitions found time to vote in our elections this morning?
- Terrence Meyers: Spies fulfill their civic duties as well as anyone else.
- Detective William Murdoch: If you will excuse me, I am to meet my wife.
- Terrence Meyers: Of course! In all of this excitement, I forgot to congratulate you on your marriage.
- Detective William Murdoch: Thank you. We are very happy.
- Terrence Meyers: Quite a pistol, that Dr. Ogden, hmm? Election agitating and all. Puts me in mind of a noble salmon, swimming upstream, against the current, hmm? Do you fish, Murdoch?
- Detective William Murdoch: No.
- Terrence Meyers: Hmm. Well, that's a shame.
- Terrence Meyers: The murder was committed by a German, just not THAT German.
- Detective William Murdoch: If this is indeed the work of a spy, we need information. Everything you know.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: And do not say the words "national security."
- Detective William Murdoch: Considering the weapon, and the force required to strangle someone, I would expect to see some marks on the killer's hands.
- Terrence Meyers: Any spy worth his salt would wear gloves when executing a man.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Any spy worth his salt won't speak German and expose himself.
- Terrence Meyers: He exposed himself precisely to hide himself. Some things you have yet to learn, Inspector. That poor bugger is neither a killer nor a spy.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: That poor bugger is neither a killer nor a spy.
- Detective William Murdoch: I agree.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: So let's find the real one.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: So the victim, this Burt Larsen, was a plugger who used the spy's name by mistake, and got plugged for it. Ha, bit unfortunate, that.
- Detective William Murdoch: Sir, he was strangled, not shot.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: , Murdoch, I know. It was a joke.