Murder, She Wrote (TV Series)

Danse Diabolique (1992)

Angela Lansbury: Jessica Fletcher

Quotes 

• Jessica Fletcher : There are three things you can never get enough of in life, Lieutenant. Chocolate, friends, and the theater.

• Jessica Fletcher : Damien, when you picked up the rose off the prop table, were you aware that it was a real flower?

  Damien Bolo : Uh, no. No, uh, you see, just before a performance, you, um... You get so wound up. You know, the adrenaline is flowing. I just picked it up off the prop table, didn't even look at it.

  Jessica Fletcher : Didn't even notice the thorns?

  Damien Bolo : I was so tense, I could've been handling a porcupine and not even noticed.

• Jessica Fletcher : You may want to take a look at the young woman's hands. She seems to have sustained a puncture wound. on the palms of her hands. Probably caused from grasping a thorn on the rose that she used in her dance. I expect you'll want to test the rose for poison.

  SFPD Lt. Martin Kinicki : And you are?

  Jessica Fletcher : Jessica Fletcher.

  SFPD Lt. Martin Kinicki : [smiles]  I thought that was you. My wife reads all your books.

• Jessica Fletcher : You made such a point, Edward, that you were doing the ballet *exactly* as it had originally been staged. But the film showed the ballerina never touching the skull. Yet, you staged the dance so that Lily would clutch the skull.

  SFPD Lt. Martin Kinicki : The one with the needles that you laced with thallium.

  Jessica Fletcher : Puncturing her palms and killing her within a matter of seconds.

• Jessica Fletcher : What... Didn't you see what happened?

  SFPD Lt. Martin Kinicki : Yeah, a bunch of people jumping around flapping their arms. Which they do a lot of in ballet.

• [last lines] 

  Claudia Cameron : You see, Geoffrey, I wanted to do something where maturity and experience were advantages, not burdens. I'm not getting any older, just better.

  [to Jessica] 

  Claudia Cameron : Did I forget anything?

  Jessica Fletcher : I think you've covered just everything.

  Geoffrey Presser : Ladies, I bow to superior wisdom. To maturity and experience. Cheers.

• Jessica Fletcher : Well, it's just that there's something I can't quite put my finger on that's not right.

  SFPD Lt. Martin Kinicki : Yeah. It's all these guys prancing around in their long underwear.