- DCS Kernan: If this turns into a murder investigation, I can let you have another six men.
- Supt. Jane Tennison: [Upset] And what are they supposed to be - pall bearers?
- Supt. Jane Tennison: You don't approve of women who take their careers seriously?
- John Warwick: Not if it makes 'em selfish. I don't approve of anyone who makes a career a fetish.
- Dr. Patrick Schofield: [to Tennison] Your finger is on a trigger. This kind of emotional stress could drive him back to established behavior.
- Chris Hughes: [On a taped interview] There's no trust like a child's. It's a perfect, perfect thing.
- Anne Sutherland: What is it with you people? You see a single mother, and as far as you're concerned, we're all screwed up and useless. We're disaster areas!