Essie Davis credited as playing...
Phryne Fisher
- Hugh Collins: [entering] Roland Claremont's war records, as requested, sir.
- Phryne Fisher: [snatching the file] How remarkably clairvoyant of you, Jack. You know, Hugh, if we ask nicely he'll make the desk levitate.
- Warwick Hamilton: Tell me, Miss Fisher, do you discredit everything you can not see?
- Phryne Fisher: No. Not everything. I believe in radio waves and electricity and magnetism.
- Warwick Hamilton: Or the current that flows between two people.
- Phryne Fisher: I would never discredit that.
- Warwick Hamilton: Two veterans of a war, perhaps.
- Phryne Fisher: Or the energy that flares between two independent spirits, however briefly.
- Phryne Fisher: Brotherly love, no matter how strong, is no protection against mortar shells and mustard gas.
- Phryne Fisher: [reading Jack's palm] I see a very careful man who professes to be cynical in the face of mysteries he can't explain, and claims to have no passions in spite of a heart that runs as deep as the Pacific Ocean.
- Detective John 'Jack' Robinson: [looks at his own palm for the future] That's strange. All I can see is another martini.