- [At the murder scene, the SOCOs found a fragment from a pornography magazine, showing a penis and a machine gun, so Blackstone is searching pornography web sites. Banks has suggested to Morton that in order to fit in and get the team on her side she should occasionally try to make her team laugh]
- DC Ken Blackstone: The number of web sites for fans of gun porn is dwarfed by those for connoisseurs of... well, dwarves, for a start, not to mention nylon, bubble wrap, puppets.
- DS Winsome Jackman: Puppets?
- DC Ken Blackstone: Puppets.
- DI Helen Morton: [laughing] I thought men were after no-strings sex.
- [Blackstone and Jackman look blankly at Morton, with not the hint of a smile]
- DCI Alan Banks: It seems Tom Rothwell got a glimpse of his dad behaving like a lovesick teenager.
- DCI Stuart Burgess: No man over the age of 45 should allow himself to succumb that. It's one of the few compensations of growing old and cynical.