- Chief Inspector Alleyn: Sir Gerald?
- Gerald Lacklander: What?
- Chief Inspector Alleyn: [Referring to an earlier expression he used] Plain as a pike stuffed?
- Gerald Lacklander: What?
- Chief Inspector Alleyn: The identity of the Colonel's killer?
- Gerald Lacklander: [Impatient and annoyed] That disgusting little sewer rat Phinn! Use thumbscrews! Of course, he'll talk!
- Gerald Lacklander: What? My entire damn warddrobe?
- Chief Inspector Alleyn: No, just what you were wearing... what everyone was wearing when the colonel was murdered.
- Lady Lacklander: I can't think of anything more disgusting than peering over other people's mucky clothes, but if that's what you wan't. that's what you'll get.
- Chief Inspector Alleyn: But they're all holding something back.
- Inspector Fox: Yes, and this Lady L's keepin' mum about her private chat with the Colonel, and Sir Gerald
- [laughs]
- Inspector Fox: ... why he looks as though he's got a ferret down his trouser...
- [laughs again]
- Chief Inspector Alleyn: [Tongue in cheek] I don't think Sir Gerald would notice if he had a ferret in his trousers.