- Harry Pearce: Colin, tell me something uplifting.
- Colin Wells: Well, it's shaping up to be the driest autumn on record.
- Harry Pearce: Do you want to be taken out and shot?
- Ruth Evershed: A bond like that, knowing you can absolutely count on someone, anytime, anywhere to be there for you, to do the right thing. I envy that.
- Danny Hunter: [pauses] Don't you ever wonder about this path we've chosen?
- Ruth Evershed: Every night.
- Adam Carter: Look, do you want to talk about it?
- Danny Hunter: Why is everyone so interested in my well-being all of a sudden?
- Adam Carter: I don't know. Could it have something to do with the fact that you've been acting like a total prat all week?
- Ruth Evershed: Have you ever read Flaubert?
- Danny Hunter: No.
- Ruth Evershed: God is in the details. The answer's right there in front of us. It always is. We just have to keep looking 'til we see it.
- Danny Hunter: If you say so, Ruth.
- Ruth Evershed: It's such a waste. He could have done so much.
- Danny Hunter: It's alright, Ruth.
- Ruth Evershed: He was just so alone.
- Danny Hunter: It's alright. It's all over now. Okay? Careful. Alright?
- Ruth Evershed: Promise me. You promise me that we'll never end up as broken or as bitter.
- Danny Hunter: I promise. I promise, Ruth.
- [first lines]
- Teacher: [struggling to control an unruly class of children] No, Gracie, don't do that! Liam, let go of him. I said let go!
- Headmistress: Everything alright?
- Teacher: Yeah. Sort of. But I'm sorry, I've just got the worst headache.
- Headmistress: They know just when to strike. Sometimes I think it's not lice we should be looking for, but three little sixes. Look, I'll deal with them. Why don't you go take a paracetamol, get some fresh air. There's some in the first aid room.
- Teacher: Yeah, thanks.
- Harry Pearce: We need to look at this as a potential domestic act of terrorism, and the clock is running on this. I don't need to tell you all how pervasive this is already.
- Sam Buxton: And I've already thrown out all my pills, and it's not the best time of the month for me to do that, I can tell you that much.
- Ruth Evershed: [translating the latest threatening note] Take away that which the infidels hold dearest, and watch as they turn on each other like rabid dogs. They've got such a lovely turn of phrase, don't you think?
- Andrew Forrestal: [quoting Kahlil Gibran] Ready am I to go, the sails of my eagerness await the wind.
- Ruth Evershed: [continuing the quote] And then I shall come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean. Don't you just love Abu Nuwas?