- DCI John Barnaby: Where on earth do you get your energy from?
- Fleur Perkins: Donuts. A couple of these, and I'm unstoppable for 24 hours.
- DS Jamie Winter: Ray Dawkins has two wives and three other women suing him for child support.
- Raoul Delgado: I'm the victim here! You're treating me like a criminal!
- Raoul Delgado: Polygamy is a crime, Mr. Dawkins!
- DCI John Barnaby: [Surveying the basement with Winter] It's like something out of a Hammer horror film.
- [muttering]
- DCI John Barnaby: Before your time. Everything's before your time.
- [last lines]
- [in order to conquer his fear of clowns so his daughter can have a clown-themed birthday party, Barnaby agrees to Fleur's plan to expose himself to a trio of clowns before the party]
- DCI John Barnaby: [grimacing] Send in the clowns.