- Sheriff Mort Metzger: I said, "Do me a favor, please, and tell me what goes on in this town."
- Jessica Fletcher: Sheriff, I'm sorry, but...
- Sheriff Mort Metzger: I've been here one year. This is my fifth murder. What is this? The death capitol of Maine? On a per capita basis, this place makes the South Bronx look like SunnyBrook Farm.
- Jessica Fletcher: But I assure you Sheriff...
- Sheriff Mort Metzger: I mean, is that why Tupper quit? He couldn't take it anymore? Somebody really should have warned me, Mrs. Fletcher. Now- Now, perfect strangers are coming to Cabot Cove to die. I mean, look at this guy. You don't know him. I don't know him. He has no ID. We don't know the first thing about this guy.
- [first lines]
- Bobby Shipton: Oh! Shoot.
- Gadge: Well, now. I do believe I've found me a wide-open door.
- Bobby Shipton: Table's got a bad lean.
- Gadge: I'll keep it in mind, Bobby. Twelve in the corner.
- [last lines]
- Jessica Fletcher: Seth. Are you here?
- [finds Seth on floor]
- Jessica Fletcher: Oh, my God. Seth!
- Dr. Seth Hazlitt: You suppose quite right. Just because I'm an opinionated, self-righteous, Yankee chauvinist... does not necessarily mean that I'm always wrong.