- McCroon: You turned good men into touts and traitors, and when you were done with them, turned them over to the Provos, to be shot.
- Ronald Craven: For that you killed my daughter?
- McCroon: I was looking for you. She just got in the way.
- Ronald Craven: You fired both barrels into her chest.
- McCroon: She was coming at me like a goalkeeper.
- Ronald Craven: You could have picked me off blindfolded, YA DAFT IRISH PRAT!
- Darius Jedburgh: [discussing Northmoor with Craven] What do you think is gonna be waiting for you down there? Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?
- Darius Jedburgh: [watching "Come Dancing" on TV] Nobody dances like the British! They deserved the Falklands.
- Craven: How was El Salvador?
- Jedburgh: Well, I spent the whole time playing poker with gangsters. One long round of gold chains and designer jeans.
- Craven: How was the golf?
- Jedburgh: Well, bodies kept turning up in the bunkers, and you need air support to play out of the rough. Kinda puts you off your game.
- Pendleton: [Harcourt and Pendleton watched, on a remote terminal, Craven breaking into MI5 computer records the previous night] We tried to ring you last night. You were out.
- Ronald Craven: I went to the theatre.
- Pendleton: Harcourt and I stayed home and watched the telly.
- Darius Jedburgh: I'm a golfer Schumaker. I happen to believe the game is sanctified. I cannot in my wildest imagination see the same thing being said for softball. Can you?
- [police are rapidly infiltrating the building in which they are accessing MI5 files]
- Toby Berwick: They're here! Time we left, Ronnie.
- Ronald Craven: [determined] Access "Northmoor Security".
- Toby Berwick: Craven, we must go now! They'll be here any minute.
- Ronald Craven: Access "Oxford Street".
- [computer gives error message]
- Ronald Craven: Access "Oxford Circus".
- Toby Berwick: COME ON, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!