- [the pathologist is examining a second body, found with a chisel embedded in it The first body was murdered with a stone mason's hammer]
- Pathologist: Bring in any more and we'll soon have a full kit of tools.
- [Lady Balcombe is scathing about her sons' attitude to the deaths]
- Lady Emily Balcombe: There's an air of obsequiousness in here which is positively cloying.
- Lady Emily Balcombe: What a cruel, cruel man you are!
- Sir John Balcombe: Better that than a foolish one.
- Chief Inspector Morse: Is there a butler?
- Detective Sergeant Lewis: I didn't see one. No.
- Chief Inspector Morse: Pity... it would have saved us a lot of time.