- Barnaby: I'm not 100% certain about your interview technique, Scott. But it certainly gets results.
- Scott: Thank you, sir.
- Barnaby: That's something you picked up at the Met, is it?
- Scott: Could be.
- Barnaby: Do you want to go back there?
- Scott: No. I quite like it here.
- Barnaby: Good.
- Scott: Yeah. I think I might change my job, though.
- Barnaby: Hmmm?
- Scott: Well, there's a shortage of funeral directors in the area. I could make a fortune.
- [last lines]
- Rosetta Price: I suppose we'll have to close down the friendship group now.
- Eve Whittle: Yes.
- Rosetta Price: Charlotte won't like it.
- John Whittle: Still busy with that little railway of yours? Missing out then, aren't you? Surprised you're not hanging around your old place of work.
- James Griss: What are you talking about?
- John Whittle: Janet Pennyman. Up for grabs now, isn't she?
- James Griss: That poor woman's in mourning.
- John Whittle: What difference does that make?
- James Griss: Now, you just shut your mouth, John. I'll take my trade elsewhere.
- John Whittle: Me? Well, what have I said?
- James Griss: And don't act the innocent with me. You're the biggest troublemaker in this village.
- John Whittle: At least I'm not a grown man playing with trains.
- Elizabeth Key: She used to ring me almost every day after dad's death. She was very excited with her bits of news. You see, she joined the Fletcher's Cross spirituality group. They killed her.
- Joyce Barnaby: What?
- Elizabeth Key: She went to them for comfort, Joyce. And they frightened her. They told her things about my father that not even I knew. That scared her. It made her ill. She told me that just before she died.
- Joyce Barnaby: But Tom thinks that whatever Rosetta Price is up to, it's a big con trick.
- Elizabeth Key: Yeah, I expect it is.
- Joyce Barnaby: So that's the reason you're going to these meetings.
- Elizabeth Key: Yes, I want to expose them. And that's not the only thing that's going on in this Godforsaken village.
- [shows Joyce a brooch]
- Elizabeth Key: My mother used to wear this always. She was hardly ever seen without it. It belonged to her mother.
- Joyce Barnaby: It's lovely.
- Elizabeth Key: I asked her to be buried with that brooch. I wanted her never to be separated from it.
- Joyce Barnaby: But she was.
- Elizabeth Key: Yes. A few weeks later I was here sorting out the probate. I saw this. It was for sale in an antiques shop.
- [first lines]
- Eve Whittle: Let us start with a prayer.
- Rosetta Price: Great Spirit, we welcome you. Place a pyramid of protection over this building, and around every home represented here this evening. We ask our guides and the doorkeepers who help us to be with us during this meeting. We speak to you in love, and light, and truth, and leave ourselves in your loving hands. Eternity was yesterday, and is today, and continues forward forever.
- Dr Bullard: I have some cheerful news for you.
- Barnaby: Oh, you've chosen the right place for it.
- Dr Bullard: He didn't kill himself.
- Barnaby: Didn't kill himself?
- Dr Bullard: Unless he managed to come back from the dead and hide the knife that was used to slash his wrists. I also think he was struck from behind by something fairly heavy.
- Ronald Burgess: I'm sorry about that, Mr. Barnaby. Sylvia gets a bit overexcited at times. That Spiritualist lot have never bothered me, personally. Please, Fletcher's Cross is a close community, too close, sometimes. Most of them wouldn't want people getting in touch with their dead relatives. Too many secrets.
- Barnaby: So what kind of person are we looking for?
- Dr Bullard: Don't know yet. But here's s bit of a puzzle. In our game nothing surprises us anymore, right, Tom?
- Barnaby: Yes. Yes.
- Dr Bullard: I would have thought that would have applied to undertakers as well. But this fellow was given a hell of a shock before he died. Do you reckon he saw a ghost?
- Eve Whittle: I am sorry about that. She's not been at her best lately. A lot of strange things have been happening.
- Scott: Really? What kind of things?
- Eve Whittle: Her spirit guide has become very angry. It just won't behave itself. Whatever or not it could harm someone, I'm not sure.
- Barnaby: Mr. Whittle, what can you tell us about James Griss?
- John Whittle: Not a lot. Don't see much of him these days. Hoo. Pennyman and Griss, that was a partnership made in hell. James in trouble?
- Barnaby: Why should he be?
- John Whittle: Because he had a short fuse, that's why.