- DI Robert Lewis: I need a drink.
- DS James Hathaway: You just had a cup of tea.
- DI Robert Lewis: It was herbal.
- DS James Hathaway: Oh, you *do* need a drink.
- DS James Hathaway: I feel there's something more. "By the pricking of my thumbs."
- DI Robert Lewis: Don't tell me: Shakespeare.
- DS James Hathaway: Bravo.
- DI Robert Lewis: I'm getting sick of bloody Shakespeare.
- Dr. Laura Hobson: Found this note on the body.
- DI Robert Lewis: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." Shakespeare?
- Dr. Laura Hobson: Hamlet.
- DI Robert Lewis: Wrong play.
- Dr. Laura Hobson: Well, this is Oxford.
- DI Robert Lewis: Don't I bloody know it.
- DI Robert Lewis: These actors, they're like some old-fashioned criminal gang: close-knit, incestuous. Cardinal sin is grassing on your mates.
- DS James Hathaway: Like the police force.
- Ch. Supt. Innocent: I'll pretend I didn't hear that.
- Professor Denise Gregson: God, you sound so like a policeman!
- DI Robert Lewis: That's because I am a bloody policeman!
- DS James Hathaway: I know this may sound like a silly question, but do you actually like anybody in Oxford?
- Phil Beaumont: I'll get back to you on that.
- Simon Monkford: [Seeing Hathaway at the door] Invite the sergeant in, Christine. We've been lifetime friends since yesterday afternoon.
- Graham Wilkinson: I was wondering whether I could pick your brains.
- DI Robert Lewis: If you can find them. It's been a long day.
- Amanda Costello: [On the phone as she exits a cab] When can we meet? I need all the dirt and only the best quality will do... Well, it may be murder and mayhem to you, darling, but it's bread and butter to me.