and I can't be at your first night proper because I'm chairing a debate on Molire. The punishment for some sin I have no recollection of committing. Hathaway [ to the RMCP ] : No, no we never sleep and we always get our man, except when it's a woman or even an occasional transsexual. Hathaway is having a bit of fun at the Canadians' expense. One of the mounties' well-known slogans is 'We always get our man.' Isabel Dawson [ as Portia ] : " ...The quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath: 'tis twice bless'd; it blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes the throned... " The lines that open this episode, and from whence its title is derived, are from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice , Act IV, Scene I, in which Portia as Balthazar argues for a cash settlement of Antonio's debt rather than Shylock's preferred pound of flesh.