- D.I. Fiona Knight: Thomas Lynley! I've heard a lot about you.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: Good things, I hope?
- Lafferty: And the bad things aren't his fault.
- D.I. Fiona Knight: [to Havers] If you want to find out how someone died, find out how they lived... how they loved.
- D.I. Fiona Knight: You know what worms do when you dig them up in the garden?
- Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers: [Knowingly] Squirm.
- Lafferty: [as Lynley enters the morgue] Never was there a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
- Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley: [Annoyed] Do you have a different quote for every autopsy you do?
- Lafferty: What's better - to see them as pieces of meat or fragments of poetry?
- Sergeant Barbara Havers: [to Lynley, about working with DI Knight] It's not that I don't get on with people. I get on with you.
- [a little shyly]
- Sergeant Barbara Havers: It's just not the same with anyone else.
- Inspector Thomas Lynley: [Lynley smiles, chuffed]