Emily Joyce credited as playing...
Bernadette Sullivan
- Bernadette Sullivan: One of the intriguing things about English common law is that it's a mess. The further you go back, the bigger the mess.
- Simon Bartlett: I don't think a history lesson's gonna solve anything.
- Bernadette Sullivan: We don't need a solution, just the mess.
- Bernadette Sullivan: I'm not some criminal you've pulled in off the street, Chief Inspector...
- DCI Tom Barnaby: I find criminals in very unexpected places, Miss Sullivan. May even be, if Mister Bartlett isn't a suspect, you still are.
- Bernadette Sullivan: What is the decent period for abstaining from carnal knowledge of your mistress when your wife dies? If she'd walked out of here, you'd have thrown a party.
- Simon Bartlett: It's not that simple.
- Bernadette Sullivan: Why not? Unless you killed her.
- Simon Bartlett: Of course I didn't kill her.
- Bernadette Sullivan: Well, you're a bit weak in the alibi department, darling. I only hope you can convince Barnaby.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: You do admit he wasn't there.
- Bernadette Sullivan: I made a mistake.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Not something a distinguished lawyer should make mistakes about.
- Bernadette Sullivan: I made mistakes much dumber than that. I believed a weak man was something else. I believed he wasn't still in love with the dull, stupid woman he married.
- Bernadette Sullivan: [James knocks off Bernadette's side mirror] What the hell are you doing?
- James Harrington: There's a footpath there, not a car park. You'll know what trespass is.
- Bernadette Sullivan: Mr. Harrington, you'd be very unwise to allow them to start felling trees.
- James Harrington: Just a bit of preliminary work. They move in next week, but that hasn't got anything to do with you or anybody.
- Bernadette Sullivan: We will be going back to court.
- James Harrington: You fired all your guns.
- Bernadette Sullivan: Oh no. You don't know how much the next salvo's going to cost you.