- [the judge has just declared a retrial because the jury cannot agree on a unanimous verdict - it is Miss Marple whose verdict differs from all the other jurors]
- Inspector Craddock: [sighing] If ever there was an open-and-shut case, this was it. One member of that jury was being deliberately perverse.
- [Miss Marple walks up]
- Miss Jane Marple: Many more than one, Inspector, I assure you. Eleven, to be precise.
- Police Constable Wells: That woman has made a mockery of my one and only murder.
- H. Driffold Cosgood: Now remember, all you have to do is speak your lines clearly, try not to trip over the furniture, and we'll run longer than "The Mousetrap"
- [a play by Agatha Christie that has run continuously since 1952]
- H. Driffold Cosgood: .
- Miss Jane Marple: [to Craddock] It may irritate you, Inspector, but sometimes women have superior minds. You'll simply have to accept it.
- [last lines]
- Miss Jane Marple: Mr. Cosgood, whatever I may or may not be, I am definitely no angel... Good-bye! Good luck!
- H. Driffold Cosgood: [to Miss Marple] I'll fetch the scripts right away.
- [to Ralph]
- H. Driffold Cosgood: Ralph, call the theater. Tell them we're rehearsing on stage for a week...
- Miss Jane Marple: Mr. Cosgood, I wouldn't think I was anyone's idea of a detective.
- H. Driffold Cosgood: Not anyone's, dear Miss Marple, but you're mine. You're certainly mine.
- Ralph Summers: ...and mine!