- [first lines]
- Mayor Sam Booth: Friends. Neighbors. My heart swells with pride as I stand before you on this special day to once again celebrate the long and glorious past of this great town of ours.
- Harris Atwater: Mrs. Fletcher, when I said that it was a pleasure meeting you, it is just possible that I spoke in haste.
- [last lines]
- Jessica Fletcher: Seth Hazlitt, I've been meaning to ask you a question. When everyone else was terrified that they were going to lose their homes, why were you as calm as a mountain lake?
- Dr. Seth Hazlitt: Well, I'm much too old to get caught up in that sort of mass hysteria. Besides, I rent.