- Constable George Crabtree: 'The Filmed Adventures of Detective William Murdoch' hardly trips off the tongue, and it would make for a very long marquee.
- Detective William Murdoch: That's true.
- James Pendrick: What do you suggest?
- Constable George Crabtree: Just 'The Murdoch Mysteries'.
- James Pendrick: I like it.
- Detective William Murdoch: Mr. Pendrick, this latest venture of yours: are you sure it's going to work? Murder, crime, as entertainment?
- James Pendrick: We have mystery novels; I'm simply trying to create a visual narrative.
- Detective William Murdoch: Yes, I understand that, but... filmed depravity is something completely different.
- James Pendrick: See, I'm willing to bet that you're wrong. I believe that The Filmed Adventures of Detective William Murdoch will play to standing-room-only crowds from coast to coast. Moving pictures are this century's predominant form of entertainment; I'm willing to bet on it. For young and old.
- Detective William Murdoch: I highly doubt that.
- Thomas Edison: Mr. Pendrick, I and a group of others are considering going to California to launch the motion picture industry. You could be a part of it.
- James Pendrick: The motion picture industry will be here, in Toronto, Canada. I have no intention of going into business with a scoundrel such as you.
- [first lines]
- Dr. Emily Grace: [entering theater] This should be good.
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Better be.
- [picks up headphones]
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: What the devil is this?
- Detective William Murdoch: Some sort of listening device?
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Hmph.
- Constable George Crabtree: We all have them.
- Detective William Murdoch: Mr. Pendrick certainly seems intent on making a splash.
- James Pendrick: Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to be amazed!
- Inspector Thomas Brackenreid: Bugger always was full of himself.
- Alphonse: Murdoch can't be shot; it has to be Constable Tom.
- James Pendrick: Alphonse, I'm director, and what I say goes!
- Alphonse: But, if you do it like that, it doesn't make any sense. In the third act, Tom is the one who has to get shot.
- James Pendrick: The audience won't care about Tom; Murdoch is the star.
- Alphonse: But the ending won't make any sense at all.
- James Pendrick: It doesn't matter. There'll be a terrific chase scene.
- Alphonse: Idiot!
- Thomas Edison: Detective Murdoch, if I wanted to harm Pendrick, I would use weapons *far* more devastating than any gun. My attorneys.
- James Pendrick: I have a moving picture to finish. If I don't, I'll be ruined. Yet again.
- Detective William Murdoch: But if you continue you may be killed.
- James Pendrick: Then I'll die for my art.
- Detective William Murdoch: Mr. Pendrick, art is a sculpture, a-a painting, poetry. You're making a moving picture starring Constable George Crabtree.
- [last lines]
- Detective William Murdoch: I'm not entirely sure I can envy a future where everyone wastes their lives staring at a screen watching made-up stories.
- Dr. Emily Grace: [as she prepares to remove the body from the theatre] Excuse us.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: It's a pity he missed the ending.
- Charlotte: [to Dr. Julia Ogden] Pardon me if I'm being indiscreet, but... what is Detective Murdoch to you?
- Dr. Julia Ogden: We're very good friends.
- Charlotte: Oh. Is that it? There's nothing... nothing more?
- James Pendrick: Charlotte, perhaps you're being a little too prying.
- Charlotte: I need to know who I'm playing, a modern woman or a church mouse.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: Well, if you're playing a modern woman, perhaps you shouldn't be trying to define her through her relationship with a man.
- Dr. Julia Ogden: You know, William, I imagine you would have made a fine film actor.
- Detective William Murdoch: Thank you, but I just can't abide all the inaccuracies.
- Detective William Murdoch: Mr Pendrick! I don't suspect you of anything!
- James Pendrick: Oh. Oh, that's refreshing.