- Sergeant Dan Scott: Well, whatever they call it, sir, Jimmy Kirby knew I was wearing this tie before I came in.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: I should think everyone from here to Causton would know you're wearing that tie.
- Jimmy Kirby: Mm. Mm. Oh dear, oh dear, no, no.
- [laughs]
- Jimmy Kirby: Whoever told you you could wear that flowery tie with that shirt, they want locking up in their own police cell.
- Sergeant Dan Scott: [laughs] I don't know what you're laughing at, sir. You're our chief suspect.
- Little Mal Kirby: [last lines]
- [Tom and Joyce Barnaby are seeing Cully off at the station]
- Little Mal Kirby: She's going to be just fine.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: I wanted to ask you, Mal -
- [Mal has disappeared]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: And what are you doing living in a caravan with Romany Rose?
- Lucky Lol Tanner: It's not illegal, is it? We've been shacked up since she arrived, to tell the truth. I have this - er - weakness for Northern gypsies. You've got to admit it, she's a very good-looking woman.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: She's also got two dead husbands.
- Lucky Lol Tanner: Bet they died happy 'n all.
- Preaching Pete Kubatski: When people turn their face from the light, Inspector, there's really nothing left. Utter darkness.
- Sergeant Dan Scott: Lol Tanner?
- Lucky Lol Tanner: No, I already told them that won't work. They want to put another fruit machine in here with that lot. It's like giving a nest of crocodiles an oven-ready turkey.
- Preaching Pete Kubatski: So I've been given 12 months to bring real religion to this village, instead of the false religion of scientific reason. Or just plain paganism.
- [first lines]
- Jimmy Kirby: [throws John Ransom out of his pub] What? Clear off! Go on!
- Lucky Lol Tanner: Hey, what's the matter?
- Jimmy Kirby: [to Ransom] He didn't hit you that hard.
- Romany Rose: Hello, gorgeous! Now you've got a lucky face.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: And I also have one of these.
- [shows his warrant card]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: And the penalties for gaining pecuniary advantages through deception can be very severe.
- Romany Rose: I am a bona fide psychic.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Aye, well, there's a lot of that around here. Only it's funny that a medium to the crowned heads of Europe couldn't spot that I'm with the CID. Now, I'm going to make a prediction. When I get back, that won't be here.
- [indicates her motor home]
- Romany Rose: I knew you were going to say that!
- [shouting after him]
- Romany Rose: Are you here for the murders?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Well, you're the clairvoyant.
- Sergeant Dan Scott: [arriving at Mal Kirby's house] How do they get the pigeons in there?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: That, Scott, is a Stevenson screen. It has instruments for measuring temperature, humidity, and ambient barometric pressure.
- Sergeant Dan Scott: Right. What's wrong with the weather forecast?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: You know, Scott, you're right.