- Tony Lucciano: [Last lines] What sort of world is this, Mr. Foyle?
- Samantha Stewart: [after a pause Tony walks away] Tony!
- [to Foyle]
- Samantha Stewart: I don't know what to say.
- DCS Christopher Foyle: [Soberly] Neither do I.
- DCS Foyle: I'll have the lasagne
- Carlo Lucciano: Not the lasagne.
- [whispers]
- Carlo Lucciano: There's a meat shortage and I saw what went into it.
- David Beale: [Opening lines as he addresses his draft board] I don't believe in war. I don't believe it solves anything. War is evil. It;s irrational, and if history has taught us anything, it's that war only leads to more war... more killing... bigger armies. You want me to join up? What you want me to do is take a lesson in murder. That's really all it is... , and I stand here today because that is a lesson I refuse to take!
- DCS Christopher Foyle: [Foyle is playing golf with Hugh Reid] You know, the more I play this game, the worse I seem to get.
- Hugh Reid: Yes... It's probably your age...
- DCS Christopher Foyle: Thank you!
- Susan Gascoigne: [to milner] How much does the world have to change before people like us can behave how we want and not how we're expected?
- Eric Cooper: [Having been told his son is dead] You know I never wanted Joe to leave London. I never wanted him to go. But they said it'd be better for him. They said there would be air raids and there aren't enough shelters. And you know Mr Foyle, even the missus said he'd be safer in the country, she said all the boys and girls were going, she said he'd be safe. And I took him to the station myself. And you'd never seen so many kids. You could hardly see the platforms with all that luggage everywhere. Mother's crying, little boys and girls, all with those labels round their necks, you know, all being packed off. But Joe, Joe didn't want to go. Joe held onto my leg. And in the end, they took him away, and they packed him off in the carriage with hundreds of them. I'm walking home. That was the strange thing, Mr Foyle, because the streets were empty. Nobody laughing, nobody crying, nobody shouting, nobody kicking a ball, I have never heard anything like it before in my life, Mr Foyle, it was a city with no kids, but I didn't mind. Because they said he'd be safe. And that's all that mattered to me was that he was safe. And for months and months I been sitting there in London and not a single bomb has fallen! And you're telling me now, that my son has been killed here, with strangers, because he just got in the way! Now where's this Gascoigne? I wanna see him face to face, where is he?
- Christopher Foyle: Mr Cooper, there's nothing you can do, you should go back.
- Eric Cooper: No, no, Mr Foyle, I'm staying, and I'm not leaving without my boy.
- Christopher Foyle: We'll find you a room, but there's no point in confronting him with this.
- Eric Cooper: I'm staying.
- Theo Howard: I still believe on pacifism, Florence. That hasn't changed, but I'm as capable of killing as the next man.