- Hector: [to an exiting Archie] Who are these people you're meeting?
- Molly: They're coming to help Archie market the spring water. Nothing sinister.
- Hector: Of course it's sinister; they're from Glasgow.
- Molly: Why don't you go and enjoy yourself?
- Hector: How, exactly?
- Molly: Oh, I don't know. Shoot something; that usually cheers you up.
- Duncan McKay: And he agrees I don't belong here. Reckons I should move to Glasgow, find myself.
- Lexie McTavish: What if you're not there when you get there?
- Archie MacDonald: How did that ring end up in the loch?
- Hector: Didn't you hear? Red Bonnet put it there.
- Archie MacDonald: Father...
- Hector: I lost it swimming. Stupid thing to do. "Damn stupid thing to do, Hector," my father said. "You really let me down. I despair of you ever amounting to anything." Well, I wanted to tell him that it was an accident, it could have happened to anyone, that I was sorry, sorry I'd let him down.
- Archie MacDonald: Well, why didn't you?
- Hector: Because he was a cantankerous old git who was impossible to talk to. Can you imagine having a father like that?
- Archie MacDonald: No. No, I can't.
- Lexie McTavish: Duncan, you'll hate Glasgow. It's full of scary and selfish people, and that's just my family.