- [looking at a run-down block of flats]
- Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford: Half of them are empty. The council's saving up to blow them up.
- Det. Insp. Mike Burden: If Mrs Khoori gets elected they're going to have an explosion sponsored by the Crescent supermarket.
- Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford: If the BNP get in they're going to leave the people in and then blow it up.
- Det. Insp. Mike Burden: Dr. Akand telephoned
- Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford: Akand-e
- Det. Insp. Mike Burden: I like doctors best when they're called Finlay and Cameron
- Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford: I think that may be racist
- Det. Insp. Mike Burden: What?
- Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford: Preferring your doctors Scottish to Nigerian
- Det. Insp. Mike Burden: I'm not racist. All Scotsmen look the same to me
- Dr. Raymond Akande: [to Wexford] In my profession when people start to say it's nothing, it occasionally turns out to be something.
- Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford: What did you think of our chairperson?
- DS Karen Malahyde: The more she tries to impress, the less I'm impressed.
- Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford: If I was having an affair, how long would it take you to guess?
- Sylvia Wexford: Ten minutes... fifteen if you were clever. Let's say ten.