- Detective Bud Morris: Derek Ames, the Swami of Calm.
- Special Agent Derek Ames: People find good odds comforting. They can focus on making their hope a reality.
- Detective Bud Morris: Three-quarters of abducted children who die are killed within the first three hours of their abduction. How is that for odds? We don't have time.
- Special Agent Derek Ames: I never said we did. We need all the contacts ASAP.
- Detective Bud Morris: Where you going?
- Special Agent Derek Ames: To see your M.E. about the body. Hopefully, he'll have a theory.
- Detective Bud Morris: You mean she, and as for theories... be careful what you wish for.
- Megan Hunt: Can you match those imprints to a make and model?
- Curtis Brumfield: Give us a few hours, and we'll tell you if it's standard or luxury.
- Special Agent Derek Ames: The only person who knows where the boy is hidden, is now in your custody.
- Megan Hunt: Time to make a dead man speak.
- Megan Hunt: I've had other missing person cases before. Why this one?
- Kate Murphy: I was new here. It was my... It was my third autopsy: a battered mom whose daughter had gone missing. Curtis and I worked on that case for two weeks straight.
- Megan Hunt: They never found the girl?
- Kate Murphy: They found her. She was my fourth autopsy.
- Megan Hunt: And the quid quo pro is?
- Joan Hunt: I'm here to help you, Megan... and find out what I said that was so terribly wrong.
- Megan Hunt: [after a long pause, fetches an election pamphlet] You know how hard it is for me to see that everywhere? That was the worst day of my life. And every time you run for office, I have to relive it.
- Joan Hunt: So that's what that picture means to you? I always found it a point of family pride... for becoming successful... for staying strong.
- Megan Hunt: Daddy killed himself, we suffered, and I miss him. How is that a point of family pride?
- Megan Hunt: [is handed a dossier] What's this?
- Joan Hunt: The scariest four hours of my life. The day your farther killed himself, I came back to a house filled with cops and you gone. Ran away, they said. For the next four hours, I was frantic. I thought that maybe I had lost both you and your father. But they found you. You were sound asleep in your father's tool shed.
- Megan Hunt: I didn't know where you were. Is that why you've been helping, because you... lost a child for four hours?
- Joan Hunt: Megan, I lost you for the next thirty years.
- Special Agent Derek Ames: You can't let your heart get the better of you.
- Megan Hunt: Nobody has ever accused me of that.
- Kate Murphy: You promised him evidence?
- Megan Hunt: I got carried away.
- Kate Murphy: You wouldn't be the first to get carried away by Derek Ames.
- Megan Hunt: May I remind you that you already have a boyfriend?
- Special Agent Derek Ames: Okay, I am curious. How'd you get the warrant?
- Megan Hunt: I know someone.
- Special Agent Derek Ames: Now I am more curious.