- Adele Goffe: [acerbically to Gina about the death of Bishop Parsons] We'll pray for her soul... after pudding.
- DI Robert Lewis: [excusing himself] I'd better not keep Sergeant Hathaway waiting, or I'll be in trouble.
- Prof Joanna Pinnock: What an interesting man! Why did he leave the seminary to become a policeman?
- DI Robert Lewis: Didn't he tell you?
- Prof Joanna Pinnock: No.
- DI Robert Lewis: Me neither.
- Adele Goffe: Do I bear even the slightest resemblance to a detective?
- DS James Hathaway: No.
- Adele Goffe: I'm not sure that you do, to be frank.
- DS James Hathaway: You might be right.
- DI Robert Lewis: I can hear you tutting even if you're not.
- DS James Hathaway: I don't like misplaced apostrophes.
- DI Robert Lewis: Often wondered about this place and all the monks.
- DS James Hathaway: They're friars.
- DI Robert Lewis: [sighing] Go on enlighten me.
- [opening the door]
- DI Robert Lewis: you first.
- DS James Hathaway: Monks stay in and chant a lot and friars get out and about.
- DS James Hathaway: You don't live in?
- Stephen Blackmore: "God made the country, and man made the town." I value the quiet life.
- DI Robert Lewis: [referring to a black man walking in the hallway] The bishop's husband.
- DS James Hathaway: Not something you hear every day.