John Nettles credited as playing...
DCI Tom Barnaby
- Joyce Barnaby: Iris Holman is in love with Giles Braithwaite.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: How do you know that?
- Joyce Barnaby: Oh, you'd have to be blind not to see it. Or a man.
- [Jones is hammering the knocker on a door]
- DCI Tom Barnaby: I think you should apply more force.
- DS Ben Jones: I'm knocking as hard as I can, sir.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Kick the door down.
- DS Ben Jones: Oh!
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Iris Holman was blackmailing you! Wasn't she?
- Gerald Farquaharson: She held the document that legalised the wager. She was asking for money. But what she really wanted was revenge.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: On Sebastian?
- Gerald Farquaharson: On the world...
- DCI Tom Barnaby: You know it doesn't matter that Frank Bishop is dead. The manor still goes into his estate.
- Gerald Farquaharson: That is
- [laughs]
- Gerald Farquaharson: That is the irony of it. You see, Frank Bishop was so determined that his man would win that he did a bit of pre-fight tampering. Kinsella didn't know. But he was told this morning he had failed a drugs test.
- DS Ben Jones: He'll be stripped of the title.
- Gerald Farquaharson: And the wager is void and the estate is still mine.
- DS Ben Jones: So no need for all those murders.
- Gerald Farquaharson: None at all, Sergeant. What a waste. What a pitiful waste. Although, when you think of it, Braithwaite, a two-timing lawyer, Frank Bishop, a ruthless main chancer, Iris Holman, an embittered blackmailer. And what am I? Other than a gentrified waster? None of us will be much of a loss to society.
- [last lines]
- DS Ben Jones: He got his son's wife pregnant, and gambled away his family fortune, and people like him.
- DCI Tom Barnaby: I certainly did.
- DS Ben Jones: Yeah. You did screw up, didn't you, sir?
- DCI Tom Barnaby: Yes. Killed three people; carried out those murders meticulously, clinically, right under my nose. What kind of a man does that?
- DS Ben Jones: J.P. A pillar of the community...
- DCI Tom Barnaby: ...And certainly not one of us at all.