- Dr. Scott Collins: [to Petra] Look, Emma's dead! And if you leave things as they are, Emma will have died for nothing.
- Arthur Richards: Will you settle out of court?
- Bea Smith: It'll cost you thirty thousand.
- Arthur Richards: [laughs] Thirty thousand! You weren't even hurt, Smith! You'll be lucky to get ten.
- [they stare at each other]
- Arthur Richards: Alright, fifteen.
- Bea Smith: Twenty.
- Arthur Richards: I might be able to get approval for that amount.
- Bea Smith: The bloke that got killed, Bill Hunt, he had a wife and kids and I want them to get half.
- Arthur Richards: You're very generous with the department's money.
- Bea Smith: [angrily] He was very generous with his life!
- Arthur Richards: I want that letter!
- Bea Smith: It'll be destroyed when I get the money.
- Arthur Richards: That's blackmail.
- Bea Smith: [laughs] No. That's discipline.
- [last lines]
- Dr. Scott Collins: [having just been on the phone] That was the health department; the blood sample I took from Glynnis Ladd, it shows she has a rare tropical disease. It's called Lassa fever, and there's never been a case in this country before.
- Ann Reynolds: They must have made a mistake.
- Dr. Scott Collins: No. No mistake. Wentworth is under strictest quarantine, nobody is to be allowed in or out until further notice.