- DS Joe Ashworth: [Talking about Stuart Macken] Did you ever...? Uh?...
- DCI Vera Stanhope: What? What? Me and Stuart Macken? Ah, come on, use your eyes. I was way out of his league wasn't I!
- DS Joe Ashworth: [laughs] Aye, that's what I said.
- [pathologist Billy Cartwright is looking at Stella Macken as she is lying unconscious in hospital]
- DCI Vera Stanhope: This bruise. What do you reckon?
- DS Joe Ashworth: Billy? I thought he was strictly post-mortem.
- Billy Cartwright: I take the occasional stroll among the living. Unsettling for all concerned, I can assure you.
- DCI Vera Stanhope: I asked him, God forgive me.
- Billy Cartwright: Stiil. By the look of her, I'll be seeing her again downstairs shortly, will I?