- Harry Dresden: [Yelling in a Police District full of people] I got a message from beyond the grave.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: [Whispering] Get out.
- Harry Dresden: Well, give me the file and I'll be gone.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: I can't do that.
- Harry Dresden: You're a cop, Murphy, you can do anything.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: I can't make you go away.
- Harry Dresden: Most people will drop it, right here, right now, no questions asked. Unfortunately, I'm not most people. When someone says stop, somewhere between my ear and my brain, what I hear is "full speed ahead."
- Bob: [after Harry has explained that he got beaten up by a ghost] Maybe she wanted company. You know, I'm not doing anything. Maybe I could find her frequency. Chat her up.
- Harry Dresden: Her father would love that.
- Bob: It could be our secret.
- [first lines]
- Harry Dresden: [narrating] Putting "Wizard" on your door is like putting up a sign that says "Lunatics Welcome." Not that all my clients are crazy. But they all think I'm a little crazy. They ask me to cast spells, move objects without touching them, and of course see dead people. Hey, don't get me wrong, I can do most of that stuff, but when it comes to dealing with ghosts, let's just say I'd rather get a root canal.
- [referring to Bob]
- Harry Dresden: Not all ghosts are spooky, or have unfinished business. Some are just annoying. Especially when the ghost has 1,000 years of supernatural knowledge he feels compelled to share. Constantly.
- Harry Dresden: She won't move on. She wanted me to see that Boone was on a mission. Oh, something's not right.
- Bob: Oh, I see another quixotic crusade looming on the horizon.
- Harry Dresden: So do I.
- [Pulling a bag from an evidence box and reading the label]
- Marie: A fragmented 14 by 10 inch Egyptian tablet known as "The Lock of Anabass... Ane...?"
- Harry Dresden: Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead. It had the body of a man and the head of a jackal.
- Marie: My, my. Well, I wouldn't care what his head looked like as long as he had the ass of Brad Pitt.
- Harry Dresden: He needs a clearer picture of how Boone died.
- Edward Miller: In an explosion of blood and brain matter.
- [the lights in Charles's shop suddenly go out when Harry discovers a clue]
- Charles Harding: Lisa? Was that Lisa?
- Harry Dresden: I think that was a nudge in the right direction.
- Lucas Sabin: Have you ever been to prison, Mr. Dresden?
- Harry Dresden: No.
- Lucas Sabin: Violence and tedium - they are the major threats against health and sanity. As it turned out, Boone was a reasonable protection against both. During the day, he watch my back and at night he listened to my ramblings. Over time I believe he actually grew to appreciate my particular interests.
- Harry Dresden: Those being ancient Egyptian funerary rights?
- Lucas Sabin: It's not a crime.
- Harry Dresden: Not unless you practice on live people.
- Harry Dresden: [narrating] Dying hadn't changed Gus Boone a bit. He was still a thug and an armed robber - and now he'd stolen Murphy's body and I had to get him out before he traded her in for a new model.
- Bob: A voodoo doll? How completely irresponsible of you. So you're going to reach out and touch Boone by bringing pain to Murphy's body.
- Bob: Harry, that's black magic and you cannot afford to dabble in the black!
- Harry Dresden: I need a way to convince Boone that he can run, but he can't hide. With th...
- Bob: With that you run the risk of alerting the High Council and falling prey to your darker desires.
- Harry Dresden: Do I have a choice? Huh? I got a dead billionaire. I got a possessed cop. I got a psychotic killer on the loose and in four hours, he''s going to meet up with a Vegas tycoon and he's going to jump into him and, in the process, he's going to blow Murphy's brains out! Now, have you got any better advice, Bob?
- [referring to the Tablet of Anubis]
- Harry Dresden: So, it's like a get out of death free card.
- Lucas Sabin: If you need such an imbecilic crutch to grasp the concept, yes.
- [Boone has inhabited Murphy's body]
- Lt. Connie Murphy: You're not dead.
- Harry Dresden: I'm a wizard - deal with it.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: Really?
- Harry Dresden: Uh-huh. Really truly.
- Charles Harding: Whatever it is that you do - is it real?
- Harry Dresden: Yeah.
- Charles Harding: And how long have you been doing it.
- Harry Dresden: Since I was a kid.
- Charles Harding: And do you always help people.
- Harry Dresden: Not always. Especially one time with an uncle. He had other ideas about how best to use my abilities.
- Charles Harding: Where is he now?
- Harry Dresden: Dead.
- [last lines]
- Lt. Connie Murphy: Could you made me a promise?
- Harry Dresden: Yeah.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: After tonight, if I go back to work...
- Harry Dresden: Hey! When...
- Lt. Connie Murphy: ...when. Promise you will never lie to me about anything... ever... again.
- Harry Dresden: Murphy.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: Goodnight, Harry.
- Harry Dresden: Murphy...
- Lt. Connie Murphy: Harry, I keep dreaming about you.
- Harry Dresden: Good dreams, bad dreams, what you got?
- Lt. Connie Murphy: I don't know. Sometimes you're pretty scary in them; other times not so much. But in all of them you're... performing.
- Harry Dresden: Like on a stage or what?
- Lt. Connie Murphy: Like miracles. Weird, huh?
- Harry Dresden: Yeah, that's weird.
- Marie: Gus Boone. He served five years for aggravated assault and he got out and he killed a girl the next day. He got what he deserved. Blown to bits by one of Chicago's most eligible batchelors, Edward Miller.
- Harry Dresden: Who is this guy?
- Marie: Well, if you were a single woman you'd know. But you're a single man, right? How's you salami? Sandwich, I mean.
- Charles Harding: Boone, Gus Boone. He'd just gotten out of prison. There used to be a jewelry store next door. The police think maybe he got confused, came in here and panicked. Killed Lisa. And then took something he though he could sell.
- Harry Dresden: What was that?
- Charles Harding: An engraved stone tablet - Egyptian. I had it under glass. It must have caught his eye, but he dropped it in the alley. The cops found it smashed to pieces.
- Harry Dresden: Cops caught the guy?
- Charles Harding: No.
- Harry Dresden: Well, if Lisa's killer went unpunished that might be enough to keep her spirit here.
- Charles Harding: Boone is dead. He left here and he carjacked a guy at gunpoint. There was a struggle. Boone's shotgun went off in his own face.
- [Boone's shots at Harry lodge in his bracelet]
- Harry Dresden: Hey, what do ya know? I'm alive. Saved by one of the tools of the trade - the shield bracelet I inherited from my mother. Thanks, Mom!