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- Det. Lt. Avery Mendelsohn: Lt. Avery: What do you say, Mrs. Fletcher? I got an appointment with the podiatrist at 2:00, but I still got time for a bite to eat.
- Jessica Fletcher: Lieutenant, I haven't eaten a thing since breakfast. Come to think of it, I didn't even eat then.
- Det. Lt. Avery Mendelsohn: Good. I know this deli. The guy who runs it, Max, a friend of my cousin, Sadie, he makes a lox and cream cheese platter you could die from.
- Jessica Fletcher: Lox? I-Is that something like gefilte fish?
- Det. Lt. Avery Mendelsohn: Mrs. F., for a bright woman, you have been leading a very uninformed life. Permit me the pleasure of educating you.
- Jessica Fletcher: We'll get along just fine if you try to remember that I'm not your addlepated great-aunt from East Nowhere.
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- Congressman Dan Keppner: I figure I got an obligation to everybody who voted for me, right, Harry?
- Harry Parmel: Absolutely, Dan. Absolutely. A log of these guys, they think a seat in Congress is like a free ride, a great big cookie jar they can just dip their mitts into...
- Ray Dixon: Mrs. Fletcher, we play a game in this town. Those of us who are good at it, get things done. It's the amateurs who tend to get hurt.