- Myna Albans: [while being put to bed] Where are you going tonight?
- John Tavner: I'm gonna climb a bunch of electric fences.
- Myna Albans: What is an electric fence?
- John Tavner: It's, like, invisible, um like, a safety feature of rods of electricity, that you can't really touch, but that I have to touch.
- Myna Albans: Oh, you know what you should do?
- John Tavner: What?
- Myna Albans: Get a sexy girl to maneuver around those rays in a sexy and successful way...
- Bernice Tavner: [to Alice] I haven't talked to John in 14 months. Part of the arrangement. I can't. Because I'm not supposed to know a detail of what they do. Not a detail, so we separate. It's the worst thing. But I handle it by recognizing that they're doing, like I'm doing, like you're doing, what they think is best. He's not a good father-in-law, Alice, but he's a good man.
- Bernice Tavner: You should take Myna and leave. It's best. Take her back to Luxembourg where no one ever hurts anyone. If you stay here, you're going to get hurt, I imagine.
- Detective Agathe Albans: Would you rather there were no place where murder was rare?
- Bernice Tavner: You and Tom, it's odd.
- Detective Agathe Albans: What's odd?
- Bernice Tavner: Both of you use your children to fulfill the obligation of your job. I noticed. Because it's imperative. You're like him in that regard, I guess. But you've never had to be brave or be hurt for your work, I imagine. So you're less like John. So probably, you can't anticipate him entirely.