- Harry McGraw: Look, Mrs. Fletcher, why don't you take some advice? Why don't you devote that boundless energy of yours to needlepoint or a bridge club?
- Jessica Fletcher: Eh, I tried that. It's precisely the reason why I wrote my first book: I was bored out of my mind.
- [first lines]
- Archie Miles: [on phone] Doctor passed away nine years ago. I tracked his wife, uh, to a town in California. She's remarried. She had nothing to say. Hold on a second.
- [last lines]
- Jessica Fletcher: Harry, I do believe you're offering me a job.
- Harry McGraw: McGraw & Fletcher. Your brains, my knuckles.
- Jessica Fletcher: That's nice... but no thanks.
- Harry McGraw: Yeah, that's what you say now, but its 124 miles to Cabot Cove, and I can be very persuasive.