- Insp. Frost: Where money is concerned, or a title for the taking, the human race is capable of practically anything.
- [last lines]
- Insp. Frost: Have you ever considered, uh, becoming a detective?
- Emma McGill: Me?
- [laughs]
- Emma McGill: Oh, go on with you.
- Insp. Frost: No, really. You have a knack for it.
- Emma McGill: Do I? Well, let's just say, uh, it runs in the family.
- [first lines]
- Emma McGill: That old persimmon? He's too mean to die
- [chuckles]
- Emma McGill: I engaged him myself at the music hall a few years back. Oh, that was the sorriest three weeks of my life. I don't know which was worse, the horses or the gin.