- DCI John Barnaby: How much would you pay for a rabbit?
- DS Jamie Winter: Am I keeping it or eating it?
- DCI John Barnaby: You're breeding it. I've just had a very interesting conversation with the chair of MIDSPA: the Midsomer Small Pets Association. Hercules had been offered out to stud through their Rabbit Registry.
- DS Jamie Winter: A dating agency for rabbits. And they say romance is dead.
- [Sarah is looking after Bernie, a stuffed-toy badger which is the mascot of Betty's playgroup. John comes into the kitchen to find that Paddy, their new dog, has ripped the toy badger to shreds]
- DCI John Barnaby: Paddy, you didn't?
- [Paddy looks very guilty]
- DCI John Barnaby: You did!
- Sarah Barnaby: Oh no!
- DCI John Barnaby: Sarah, it's probably not as bad as it looks.
- Sarah Barnaby: Tell that to Angela-blooming-Besbrode! She took Bernie up a mountain and he barely lost a stitch. Five minutes in the Barnaby household, and look at him!
- DCI John Barnaby: It's been a bad week for small animals. First a rabbit-napping and now a dog-on-badger hate crime.
- DS Jamie Winter: It's all lovely. Lovely Seb Huntington, the lovely estate agent...
- DCI John Barnaby: Suspicious for a start.
- DS Jamie Winter: In a lovely relationship with his lovely girlfriend who works for the lovely pet show which everybody loves. Lovely.
- DCI John Barnaby: Except for the dead body covered in rabbits.