- [first lines]
- Sal Hunter: How can all of you just stuff your faces? What are we going to do about this? Kate and Erik are gone and we're all alone!
- Max Hunter: Hey, we're not alone. You know, we've got each other.
- Daniel Hunter: Yeah, and they're-they're not gone, they're just, you know, not here right now.
- Tess Hunter: Keep it together, Sal. You're supposed to be the smart one. We need you to come up with a plan.
- Sal Hunter: Me? I don't know what to do. I'm just a kid.
- Max Hunter: No... hey, we drop everything and keep looking until we find them.
- Anika Hunter: You mean?
- Max Hunter, Tess Hunter, Anika Hunter: No school!
- Mr. Kittredge: [to Max] Twenty minutes late on your first day. You certainly know how to make an entrance.
- [discussing with Sal how to search the library for clues]
- Tess Hunter: I'll start with the A's, you start with the Z's and we'll meet somewhere in the middle.
- Max Hunter: What about me?
- Tess Hunter: I'm sure there are some comic books around here somewhere.
- Max Hunter: What's up there?
- Sal Hunter: I'm not sure, but it's the perfect habitat for my favorite animal specimen - myotis emarginatus.
- Max Hunter: For a moment there, I thought you were going to say "bats".
- Sal Hunter: ...Myotis are bats.
- Sal Hunter: We found Saganash.
- Daniel Hunter: Well, what is it? Don't leave us hanging.
- Max Hunter: It's not a what, it's a who.
- Sal Hunter: Saganash is the name of an old mechant family just like the Hunters. They used to do a lot of business together.
- [Sal indicates an old drawing of two Dutch merchants - the same one Anika and Tess found behind a portrait of the Hunters earlier in the day]
- Anika Hunter: Hey, it's the same guys!
- Daniel Hunter: When was this?
- Sal Hunter: 1647.
- [Daniel tries to calculate the number of years on his fingers]
- Daniel Hunter: Wow, that's, ah... That's a really long time ago. So what does it mean? How it will help us find Kate and Erik?
- Sal Hunter: I don't know.
- Tess Hunter: But it's a start.
- [last lines]
- Simone Smith: Is this Child Services?
- Tim Chagall: [swallowing his sandwich] Sorry, yeah, uh, Child Services. How can I help you?
- Simone Smith: Hi, this is Simone Smith. I'm a police officer in Amsterdam District 17. You know the Hunters, right?
- Tim Chagall: What did he do?
- Simone Smith: Who?
- Tim Chagall: Max! That's why you're calling, right? Please tell me he didn't fill the hose with wild dogs again.
- Simone Smith: No, it's nothing like that.
- Tim Chagall: Then what?
- Simone Smith: I was over there earlier and... I don't think there's any supervision. I don't think there are any adults there. Is it possible for you to come over and check it out?