- [Anika, dressed in dancing togs, is whirling about the kitchen]
- Tess Hunter: What's going on? Why aren't you dressed for school?
- Daniel Hunter: Anika's already on break. She's practicing for dance team tryouts. They're right after vacation.
- Max Hunter: Since when is she into dancing?
- Daniel Hunter: Since she heard Janine is trying out, too.
- Max Hunter: Janine?
- Tess Hunter: Janine Bruhl... the Bruhl twins? Janice and Julius aka "Pain and Suffering" aka "Doom and Gloom" aka "Bumps and Bruises".
- Max Hunter: Got any more?
- Tess Hunter: "Plain and Simple"?
- Tess Hunter: Is something wrong?
- Max Hunter: Nah, nope, just... better get ready for school, right? Don't want to late.
- Tess Hunter: Right. Since when are you on time for class?
- Max Hunter: I'm always on time... or I was once. Never too late to start.
- Max Hunter: I don't have the diamond anymore. I told you.
- Saganash: True, you don't have the blue one, but now I need you to help me get the red one.
- Max Hunter: We don't have the red one, either, and we have no idea where it is so there's nothing I can do.
- Saganash: Oh, stop talking like one of those incompetent Hunters. Be yourself, be bold, be Max!
- Anika Hunter: Maybe I should beat Janine at something else, like roller skating backwards or eating doughnuts. I know I'm better than her at that.
- Tess Hunter: Saganash played you.
- Max Hunter: So she's not my mom.
- Tess Hunter: Let's go. Come on.
- Max Hunter: You're not mad at me?
- Tess Hunter: Of course I'm mad at you, but we're family and we'll always be.
- Sal Hunter: We have to be careful. Peters works for Bruhl. My guess is he stole the lanterna and the slide.
- Max Hunter: [sighs] I took it.
- Daniel Hunter: What?
- Max Hunter: And then I lost it. I'm really sorry, guys. I know you're mad at me , but not as made as I am at myself right now.
- Sal Hunter: Why?
- Max Hunter: To give to Saganash.
- Daniel Hunter: You're kidding?
- Max Hunter: He promised me he'd show me who my mom was and tell me how to find her. He even showed me pictures that all looked real but, of course, it was a lie and now I've lost everything. So I'm really sorry, you guys.
- Daniel Hunter: I'd have done the same thing.
- Tess Hunter: Me, too.
- Sal Hunter: And me, too.
- Anika Hunter: So would I.