- Thorsson: Sorry you found my lecture so boring.
- Barbara Havers: I'm more of the Countdown type. I like a challenge.
- Thorsson: [Silently mouthing] Oh.
- Troughton: I'm not stupid! I don't have affairs with my students... even when they offer themselves to me, which they do with tedious frequency.
- Barbara Havers: [Contemptuously] Poor deluded little beggers!
- Troughton: [Nastily] Or uptight little virgins.
- [Havers appeared shocked by what he says]
- Troughton: I can spot one a mile off!
- Thomas Lynley: Why... I mean, why would a girl like Elena choose to have a baby?
- Edwina: Because she was Elena. She just did whatever she wanted.