Patricia Routledge credited as playing...
Hetty Wainthropp
- Hetty Wainthropp: I'm a natural detective, Robert... meant to be... just as you said.
- Robert Wainthropp: I did not. I did not.
- Hetty Wainthropp: You must do what you're called to in this life. If you don't follow your star, you'll never hit the jackpot. Post office work does not extend me.
- Robert Wainthropp: You're a vital member of staff. They rely oon you.
- Hetty Wainthropp: I was meant for better. I found my calling - Hetty Wainthropp: Detective.
- Geoffrey Shawcross: [Hetty is stuck between floors in a hole in the floor] Why don't you just drop?
- Hetty Wainthropp: If I drop, you're fired!
- Hetty Wainthropp: [to Geoffrey] But as my Aunt Bea used to say, " If you don't know, there's others do."