- DCI John Barnaby: I'll need an analysis of this.
- Dr. Kate Wilding: Type of cloth no problem. Origin may take a little longer.
- DCI John Barnaby: Want to take a guess?
- Dr. Kate Wilding: No. Amateurs guess. And then they apologize afterwards.
- Dr. Kate Wilding: [about the corpse] It's pretty gruesome.
- DCI John Barnaby: I've got a strong stomach.
- Dr. Kate Wilding: Unlike the victim, who lacks a stomach entirely. He's been disemboweled.
- DCI John Barnaby: You're having an affair, aren't you?
- Aidan Hardy: Well, it's not illegal.
- DCI John Barnaby: No. But it can can lead to things that are.
- [a disembowelled body has just been discovered and pathologist Kate Wilding is examining it]
- DCI John Barnaby: Should I assume his assailant was a man?
- Dr. Kate Wilding: Well it's a hard job opening a body up like this. On the other hand, I'm a woman and it's all in a day's work for me.
- Caradoc Singer: It was Alfred Watkins who developed the theory of ley lines. He put it down to early man finding the quickest route between two points. Nothing more to it. To suggest they have mystical power is waffle.
- DCI John Barnaby: Druids believe it.
- Caradoc Singer: My point exactly.
- [last lines]
- Sarah Barnaby: Look! Solid gold. It's part of a Saxon hoard that's lain here for a thousand years. It's a cloak brooch. Beautiful, isn't it?
- DS Ben Jones: Worth how much?
- Sarah Barnaby: Oh, half a million?
- Eric: Easily.
- Sarah Barnaby: Maybe more.
- [Jones whistles]
- DCI John Barnaby: That much? Really. Whoof.
- [to Jones]
- DCI John Barnaby: Come on.
- [slips it in his pocket]
- Sarah Barnaby: John. John!
- Eleanor Preston: When did you buy it, Aidan? Hm? That's what puzzles me. Yesterday, after I told you that Alex had been murdered? Or did you have it up your sleeve for a while and thought, "Oh, she's been a widow for a day; just the right time to propose!"
- Aidan Hardy: Come off it, we've been lovers for ages. Your marriage was over long ago.
- Eleanor Preston: That doesn't make me indifferent to the fact that Alex was found in Crowcall Circle with his intestines ripped out.
- Aidan Hardy: Okay, so my timing was off!
- Eleanor Preston: Yeah. Yeah, that's one way of putting it.