- [first lines]
- Max Hunter: Tim, we meet again. Great to be back in Amsterdam. Love this town.
- Tim: Hello, Maximilian. Do you think you can at least *try* to get along with this foster family?
- Max Hunter: Who's Maximilan?
- Tim: Sorry... Max. No more three a.m. hiphop concerts, no more bubble wrap under the toilet seat and no more stray dog stampedes.
- Max Hunter: I...
- Tim: I mean it!
- Max Hunter: I didn't have anything to do with those dogs.
- Tim: Then how did they get in the house?
- Max Hunter: Maybe they had a key.
- Tim: This is your last chance. I'm all out of families. If it doesn't work out with the Hunters, you're gonna have to go back to Blackfriar's.
- Max Hunter: The orphanage? I hear they serve gruel seven days a week.
- Tim: That's not true. They serve gruel six days a week. On Sundays you go hungry.
- Max Hunter: Is adopting kids from all over the world your thing or something?
- Erik Hunter: No. The Hunters adopted me when I was a kid. They brought me over from the U.K. It's the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm just paying it forward.
- Max Hunter: So, how long have you been here?
- Sal Hunter: Actually, Anika's been here the longest.
- Anika Hunter: Mm-hmm. Erik and Katie adopted me when I was just a baby.
- Sal Hunter: And I've been in the family for five... five years. Daniel and Tess were already here when I came...
- Tess Hunter: We were such an awesome family... before Sal came.
- [Sal nearly chokes on his pizza]
- Tess Hunter: Kidding.
- Max Hunter: I don't know. In all the other foster families I've been in, I always felt like, you know, an extra chair or something. It's pretty cool that you call yourself a family.
- Daniel Hunter: We don't just call ourselves a family - we *are* a family. You'll see.
- Tess Hunter: [toasting] Cheers. To Max!
- Daniel Hunter, Tess Hunter, Erik Hunter, Anika Hunter, Sal Hunter, Kate Hunter: Cheers!
- Erik Hunter: Welcome.
- Bruhl: Don't be an idiot, Hunter.
- Erik Hunter: Please, lower your voice.
- Bruhl: Do me a favor. Take my offer. You'll never get any better.
- Erik Hunter: Right... because I'll never sell.
- Bruhl: Everything's for sale, Hunter. It's just a matter of finding the right price.
- Erik Hunter: Not this house. This is my home and, more importantly, my children's.
- Tess Hunter: We tried your sauce.
- Daniel Hunter: [downcast] What did you think?
- Tess Hunter: It was good.
- Anika Hunter: What's your secret?
- Daniel Hunter: Oh, well, it was really nothing. I mean, once I got the jar open...
- Tess Hunter: You guys are just in time for dinner.
- [glancing at the food remnants splattered all over the kitchen walls]
- Max Hunter: Yeah, nice decorating job. The spaghetti sauce ties the room together.
- Tess Hunter: So, you guys were gone for a long time. Did you find anything?
- Max Hunter: [dropping a note on the table] We found this under Erik and Kate's seats.
- Sal Hunter: It's Kate's handwriting. No doubt.
- Max Hunter: Any idea what it means?
- Tess Hunter: [reading the note] Saganash?
- [last lines]
- Max Hunter: I think something's happened to Erik and Kate... something serious.
- Daniel Hunter: I'm calling the police.
- Tess Hunter: [imitating a buzzer] ENNH! Wrong answer!
- Daniel Hunter: Huh?
- Max Hunter: Because they'll call child services, who will put us in a new foster home. There is no foster family that will take all of us. Which means that...
- Sal Hunter: They'll split us up.
- Anika Hunter: No!
- Max Hunter: Or worse, send us to Blackfriar's orphanage, aka the House of Gruel.
- Tess Hunter: No one splits us up. We all came from different places. We may not look alike or have the same blood, but we're family. Family stays together. Am I right?
- Max Hunter, Daniel Hunter, Tess Hunter, Sal Hunter, Anika Hunter: Definitely! Right!
- Sal Hunter: So... what do we do?