- Detective Jane Rizzoli: Maura, what do you see?
- Dr. Maura Isles: A reddish brown stain.
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: In other words, blood.
- Dr. Maura Isles: No, the crime lab will determine what it is. She has no lacerations.
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: So maybe we got lucky and the killer was bleeding. Or smearing reddish brown stuff.
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: Oh my God. You're flirting over a dead body.
- Dr. Maura Isles: When else am I going to do it?
- Dr. Maura Isles: You are deceptively complex. I do not understand you.
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: Well, you would if I was a dead body.
- Dr. Maura Isles: Do you think so?
- Dr. Maura Isles: When's the last time we had two stranglings in one day?
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: Well, cheer up. Maybe tomorrow'll be stabbing day.
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: Oh, yeah, he's fantastic. I want to kill myself. What's the best way?
- Dr. Maura Isles: Uh, atlanto-occipital disarticulation is very fast
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: No idea what that is. What else you've got?
- [first lines]
- Television Reporter: Thanks, Bill. Now let's take a look at traffic around the Boston area today. It's a light day because of the holiday. And even if you're heading to Logan Airport, the traffic is flowing even through the Williams Tunnel. If you're lucky enough to have the day off, it is one gorgeous day in Boston...
- [last lines]
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: [Maura is smiling at Jane after an awkward conversation with Lieutenant Grant] Oh, shut up.
- Dr. Maura Isles: [next to the victim] Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have proven that optimistic people live longer
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: So, she was a pessimist?
- Detective Barry Frost: Korsak's calling me BBK. Barf Bag Kid. Crowe's leaving plastic puke everywhere.
- Dr. Maura Isles: You're not the first detective to be sickened by death. You just have to find your morgue legs.
- Detective Barry Frost: [nods] I read a study that said people can conquer this kind of thing with repeated exposure. Like, when you're afraid of dogs or flying.
- Dr. Maura Isles: Ah. Immersion therapy. Very effective. It worked for me.
- Detective Barry Frost: What were you afraid of?
- Dr. Maura Isles: People. Live ones.
- [turning to the body on her table]
- Dr. Maura Isles: She'll never judge me, tease me. And I can help her. I can speak for the dead.
- Detective Kenny Leahy: Detective, huh? I heard they was putting girls on the job.
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: Yeah, they even let us drive our own cars.
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: Was she dead before she was tossed?
- Dr. Maura Isles: That would be guessing
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: I won't tell
- Dr. Maura Isles: Perfect enamel layer. No deterioration of the abutting gingiva
- Detective Jane Rizzoli: English!
- Dr. Maura Isles: She's a flosser