- [David has been seen having dinner with the wife of a business colleague]
- Don Mitchell: Are you seeing this girl?
- Dora Mitchell: I think he is.
- Don Mitchell: [to Dora] One more word out of you, Dora, and you're out on the landing.
- Don Mitchell: [to David] Are you?
- David Mitchell: [pause] No, Dad, I'm not.
- Don Mitchell: [to Dora] There you are, love. There's your answer.
- Dora Mitchell: And you believe him?
- Don Mitchell: Yes I do. And so do you because I am telling you to.
- [Don has remortgaged his house to help David buy into a money-making scheme, but David's business partner has just disappeared with the money]
- Don Mitchell: That was my life's savings. I might just as well have burned the bloody stuff. At least I'd have got five minutes of warmth out of it.