- Barclay Blake: Detective, I've spent so much time amongst the dead, yet it never prepared me for this.
- Rudolph Sutton: Barkeley Blake is a gaseous, bloated mental midget who just happened to pull the wool over the scientific world's eyes.
- Detective William Murdoch: Clearly, Professor Sutton, you do not care for Mr. Blake.
- Rudolph Sutton: No, I, um, I adore the way people confuse scientific rigor with nice teeth.