- [last lines]
- Esther Lane: What have you been doing, or is it still top secret?
- Brian Lane: No, I can speak now. Well, I've solved a ten-year-old murder, recovered twenty million pounds worth of smuggled diamonds from the grave of a notorious killer. All this came through a gay gangster who was forced to dismember his dead lover.
- Esther Lane: Brian, if you can't say anything sensible just let me go back to sleep.
- Esther Lane: [sneezes] Ugh! Are you wearing aftershave?
- Brian Lane: Its called Lethal for Men.
- Esther Lane: Well don't get it on the sheets.
- [first lines]
- Jack Halford: Another funeral. Once a fortnight now. Coming round like bloody Christmas. Victor Hadley, mean anything to you? Must be someone I knew in the job. Wasn't there a D.C.I. at Kilburn called Hadley? No, that's Hedley. Well, might as well go. Networking for the older man.