- Reverend Martha Hillcott: [about the fresco] Isn't it beautiful! All that misery and suffering. Almost makes me tingle.
- Sarah Barnaby: Baby's coming, and we need the space.
- DCI John Barnaby: But babies are tiny. How much space does something that small really need?
- Sarah Barnaby: Oh, look at you. You're so sweet, so naive. You have no idea what's coming, do you?
- DS Charlie Nelson: Don't get me wrong. I appreciate her taking me in, but you should see the house; it- it's like a pigsty. I, I tried to square the place up but, I don't know. I didn't know where to start,
- DCI John Barnaby: Nelson.
- DS Charlie Nelson: Sir?
- DCI John Barnaby: You do know I don't care.
- DS Charlie Nelson: Yes, sir.
- DCI John Barnaby: Just checking.
- DS Charlie Nelson: Sorry, how did you know about Nancy?
- Reverend Martha Hillcott: His first time out of the city?
- DCI John Barnaby: Transferred from London a month ago.
- Reverend Martha Hillcott: Still a tourist, then.
- DS Charlie Nelson: Being in churches gives me the creeps.
- Reverend Martha Hillcott: The feeling of being watched, every move catalogued, every thought recorded. Nothing escapes Him. I've often thought God's a bit like the Stasi only more effective, and with nicer agents, obviously.
- [last lines]
- DS Charlie Nelson: By the way, guess what I found under Kate's sofa yesterday?
- DCI John Barnaby: Nelson.
- DS Charlie Nelson: Sir?
- DCI John Barnaby: I still don't care.
- [first lines]
- Reverend Martha Hillcott: Frank!
- Frank Dewar: Oh. Wall came away, vicar.
- Reverend Martha Hillcott: is it serious?
- Frank Dewar: Hole's not the problem.
- DS Charlie Nelson: Just I thought, with you being a scientist, the place would be... ordered, precise, at least vaguely clean.
- Kate Wilding: Only boring people have clean houses.
- DS Charlie Nelson: Eh, you're confusing boring with normal.
- Kate Wilding: All right, as your landlady I give you my permission to tidy the place up.
- DS Charlie Nelson: Do I get a rent reduction?
- Kate Wilding: Depends how good a job you do.
- Reverend Arthur Gould: Do you have children?
- DCI John Barnaby: My wife and I are expecting our first.
- Reverend Arthur Gould: Your first! A new dad, eh. This must be an interesting time for you.
- DCI John Barnaby: It's very exciting.
- Reverend Arthur Gould: Ha! You're scared stiff. And if not, you've no business being a father.