"Mountie on the Bounty, Part I" (DS 3.12)
Original air date: March 15, 1998
Favorite quote:
FRASER: Gentlemen! There's something I'd like to get off my chest.
CREW MEMBER: What's that?
FRASER: [bursts into song]

I am using this transcript for quotations, again modifying spelling and punctuation as necessary. I am very grateful to this site for making the transcripts available.

Spoilers.

( Well, what does the squirrel do? )

"Asylum" (DS 3.11)
Original air date: November 16, 1997
Favorite quote:
ROBERT FRASER: Close the door, son. Anyone would think you were born in a barn.
BENTON FRASER: I was.

--or--

FRASER: You know, I once spent thirteen hours hanging like this underneath a suspension bridge with a mountain cat swiping at me from above. She tore my lanyard, ripped my epaulet . . .
RAY: And what happened?
FRASER: Well, fortunately the nuns at Fort McLeod practiced invisible mending.

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Spoilers.

Although generally the quotes I use from episodes are my own transcriptions, in this write-up--in the interests of doing the write-up, rather than bogging down yet again over minutiae--I have used this transcript site, modifying the punctuation, and occasionally spelling, to suit myself.

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( It's a concoction I made from the mucus membrane of a pregnant. . .  )

"Perfect Strangers" (DS 3.10)
Original air date: November 30, 1997
Favorite quote:
RAY: Okay, so a stewardess in Canada--
FRASER: Flight attendant.
RAY: A waitress in the sky in Canada is killed. Her pin shows up in the hand of a loser like Sonny on the South Side of Chicago in this dump? What is the deal?
WELSH: Well, that's why we have detectives, Detective. You are going to figure out that troublesome problem for us.
RAY: Oh.

(Did Paul Gross have a cold when they were shooting this episode? He doesn't sound like himself at all.)

Spoilers.

( It's clean. Too clean. )

"Dead Guy Running" (DS 3.9 or DS 3.11, depending on how you order them)
Original air date: January 4, 1998
Favorite quote:
STANLEY SMITH: I ain't got to stay in no room with no dead guy, all right? This is cruel and unusual punishment, okay? This is America, and I know my rights.
RAY: Oh, they always know their rights. How about the rights of the guy with the Mercedes?
STANLEY SMITH: He don't need no rights. He got a Mercedes.

Spoilers.

( Some dead people are not exciting. )

"Spy vs. Spy" (DS 3.8)
Original air date: November 2, 1997
Favorite quote:
RAY: I hate this part. I really hate this part.
FRASER: It's all part of life, Ray.
RAY: Look, don't tell me it's a part of life, Fraser. I know it's a part of life. It's the worst part.
FRASER: You know, eternity waits for us all, Ray, and in the knowledge that there's something larger than ourselves, I find a certain peace.
[beat]
RAY: You lick anything, I mean anything, I'm gone.
FRASER: Understood.

Spoilers.

( The turtle and the wolf are natural enemies, Fraser. )

"Mountie and Soul" (DS 3.7)
Original airdate: Oct. 26, 1997
Favorite quote:
DEVLIN: [to Fraser] Where're you from?
RAY: [hastily] This is Constable Benton Fraser, he first came to Chicago on the killers of his father, he's Canadian, you don't wanna know. Bare-knuckle fighter.
FRASER: Ah, no, Ray, I only wrestled bears.

--or--

RAY: Was that like a good "hmm" or a bad "hmm"?
FRASER: It was like a soy sauce "hmm."

Spoilers.

( It's the live ones that make me squeamish. )

"The Bounty Hunter" (DS 1.6)
Original airdate: October 19, 1997
Favorite quote:
FRASER: [on the phone] . . . No, I think you should sit down with your wife, I think you should talk to her, and I think you should listen to her. . . . No, no, no, no, no. Henry, I am not suggesting that your wife is always right, but in this case she may well be . . . Yes. . . . Well, yes, I do believe that a three-sixteenths ratchet head wrench is exactly what's called for.

Spoilers.

( Bobby Orr slept here once. And k. d. lang. But not at the same time, for obvious reasons. )

For those of you in the (perhaps vanishingly small) overlap in the Venn diagram between Due South watchers and Peter Straub readers, would Callum Keith Rennie not make the perfect Conor Linklater?

"Seeing Is Believing" (DS 3.5)
Original air date: October 12, 1997
Favorite quote:
WELSH: Let's give it a shot
FRASER: Ah. Well, good. Sir, if you'd be so--
WELSH: No, no, no. Use it on him. [pointing at Ray]
RAY: No! I'd love to, Fraser, but, um, I got bad eyes.
FRANNIE: Oh, okay! Do it on me!
FRASER: Francesca, you weren't there.
FRANNIE: Oh. Well, does that matter?
FRASER: Oddly, yes.

Spoilers.

( Recite the administration manual. )

"Strange Bedfellows" (DS 3.4)
Original air date: October 5, 1997
Favorite quote:
FRASER: Chainsaw.
RAY: Massacre.
FRASER: Closet.
RAY: What kind of question's that?

Spoilers.

( of all the wrong moments for a visit, this is the wrongest )