- Magnum: Well, uh... good luck on your next novel.
- Jessica Fletcher: Oh, and good luck on your next investigatiion.
- [first lines]
- Higgins: "Echoes of Ecstasy". Mr. Masters had hoped to complete it in time to be here for your arrival. But he feels confident that he'll finish the final pages today and leave Greece this evening.
- Magnum: And what about the guy who was following her?
- Police Captain Frank Browning: Who told you about him?
- Magnum: I'm the one who saw him. I guess the next of kin didn't bother to tell you that.
- Police Captain Frank Browning: She just said that the bum that ID'd the car was too inept to get a license number.
- Magnum: Well, maybe you should just explain what she was doing here.
- Arthur Houston: She's never been here. But one idiot claims he saw her run from this building, and everybody takes him seriously.
- Magnum: She was here.
- Arthur Houston: You're the idiot?
- Jessica Fletcher: Yes. And you ladies probably shouldn't go out until Mr. Magnum has, uh, solved the case.
- Magnum: I'm not on the case.
- Pamela Bates: Oh, yes, you are. If Jessica needs help, then you're hired for muscle, mop-up, whatever.
- Magnum: Muscle? MOP-UP?
- Higgins: Magnum...
- Magnum: No! Higgins, that's it! I have had it! NO MORE ABUSE! Now, I have tried to put up with it because I thought there might be a real problem here! But if there is, nobody wants to talk about it! Amy won't talk! Joan has absolutely nothing to say! And you, Miss Bates, have never even offered a reason why somebody would want to kill you! AND I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO'S BEEN SHOT AT!
- Higgins: Magnum, sit down and be calm.
- Magnum: Higgins, stop treating me like a child! I'M AN ADULT! NO MORE ABUSE!
- [knocks a champagne bottle over]