- [last lines]
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: But there is one thing you didn't figure out.
- Phryne Fisher: And that is?
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: My aversion to operetta.
- Phryne Fisher: You know I like a mystery. Let me see... A bad experience on the stage.
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: Pirates of Penzance.
- [Phryne starts to laugh]
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: The reviewer thought my performance as the Major-General was... underwhelming.
- Phryne Fisher: Why don't you let me judge for myself?
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: I can't remember a word of it.
- Phryne Fisher: Oh, what rot, once you learn one of those patter songs it's in there for good.
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: I-I'm more of a Shakespeare man.
- Phryne Fisher: The stage is all yours.
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: "Age cannot wither her. Nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry when most she satisfies."
- Phryne Fisher: Perhaps a career in the theatre beckons after all, Inspector.
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: Think I'll stick to crime.
- Phryne Fisher: [to Det. Robinson] Actors, Jack. You need somebody who understands their language, and I speak fluent thespian.
- Bart Tarrant: Tell me, Phryne, are they true, the rumors about you?
- Phryne Fisher: Usually, I'm afraid.
- Bart Tarrant: That you're a detective?
- Phryne Fisher: That too!
- Phryne Fisher: Do you think there is the slightest chance the ghost really is Dorothea?
- Mrs. Mobbs: She always did like an encore.