- [Grace apologises for getting carried away in the heat of the moment when she was watching the boxing match a few days before]
- Grace Bishop: Sorry for squeezing your hand like that.
- [Iris looks uncomprehending]
- Grace Bishop: During the fight the other night. You must think I'm awful.
- Iris Holman: [coldly] How perceptive.
- Grace Bishop: Is that a smile? Or just your lips sliding off your teeth?
- Camilla Farquaharson: [watching boxing on TV] I didn't realize they'd be fighting at four in the morning.
- Sebastian Farquaharson: They're not; they're five hours behind us.
- Camilla Farquaharson: And I thought they'd be outside.
- Sebastian Farquaharson: Why?
- Camilla Farquaharson: Well, aren't they in some sort of garden?
- Sebastian Farquaharson: [sighs] Madison Square Garden!
- Camilla Farquaharson: So I'm right.
- Sebastian Farquaharson: It's a world famous sporting arena, not bloody Kew! My wife's not known for her intellect.
- Gerald Farquaharson: Whereas my son is renowned for his charm.
- Joyce Barnaby: Iris Holman is in love with Giles Braithwaite.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: How do you know that?
- Joyce Barnaby: Oh, you'd have to be blind not to see it. Or a man.
- [Jones is hammering the knocker on a door]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: I think you should apply more force.
- DS Ben Jones: I'm knocking as hard as I can, sir.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Kick the door down.
- DS Ben Jones: Oh!
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Iris Holman was blackmailing you! Wasn't she?
- Gerald Farquaharson: She held the document that legalised the wager. She was asking for money. But what she really wanted was revenge.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: On Sebastian?
- Gerald Farquaharson: On the world...
- DCI Tom Barnaby: You know it doesn't matter that Frank Bishop is dead. The manor still goes into his estate.
- Gerald Farquaharson: That is
- [laughs]
- Gerald Farquaharson: That is the irony of it. You see, Frank Bishop was so determined that his man would win that he did a bit of pre-fight tampering. Kinsella didn't know. But he was told this morning he had failed a drugs test.
- DS Ben Jones: He'll be stripped of the title.
- Gerald Farquaharson: And the wager is void and the estate is still mine.
- DS Ben Jones: So no need for all those murders.
- Gerald Farquaharson: None at all, Sergeant. What a waste. What a pitiful waste. Although, when you think of it, Braithwaite, a two-timing lawyer, Frank Bishop, a ruthless main chancer, Iris Holman, an embittered blackmailer. And what am I? Other than a gentrified waster? None of us will be much of a loss to society.
- [talking about Iris Holman, Giles Braithwaite's assistant]
- Grace Bishop: I feel for that Giles, having her round him all the time. It must be like working with a stalker.
- Gerald Farquaharson: Don't let her get to you.
- Grace Bishop: Nosy cow! Fur coat and no knickers. I bet she doesn't even *have* the fur coat.
- [Gerald chuckles]
- Sebastian Farquaharson: [Seeing Camilla putting a sash around Kinsella's waist] Well, this makes a change... you helpin' himm into his clothers instead of out of them!
- [last lines]
- DS Ben Jones: He got his son's wife pregnant, and gambled away his family fortune, and people like him.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: I certainly did.
- DS Ben Jones: Yeah. You did screw up, didn't you, sir?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Yes. Killed three people; carried out those murders meticulously, clinically, right under my nose. What kind of a man does that?
- DS Ben Jones: J.P. A pillar of the community...
- DCI Tom Barnaby: ...And certainly not one of us at all.