Meredith Henderson: Shirley Holmes

Quotes 

• [listening to a news report about alien abductions] 

  Peggy Holmes : Idiots!

  Shirley Holmes : The police?

  Peggy Holmes : The aliens! Why bother with all these silly abductions when thousands of people would give their right arms to go. They could sell tickets!

• Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk : You don't actually believe little green buys are running around Reddington snatching people, do you?

  Shirley Holmes : Little gray guys. I'd be careful with that petrified mammoth dung. Very rare.

• Shirley Holmes : What happened last night?

  Alan Brooks : What are you, a baby cop?

• Shirley Holmes : I need to know about implants.

  Bartholomew 'Bart' James : Oh, they're tracking devices. They usually look like tiny ball bearings, often found up the abductee's nose; sometimes in the neck.

  Shirley Holmes : When an abductee has one, does that mean that the aliens are going to come back for him?

  Bartholomew 'Bart' James : Possibly. There've been reports of double, even triple, abductees. Some people have all the luck.

• Mr. Howie : Miss Holmes, what are you doing in my car?

  Shirley Holmes : I just found it more efficient than following you on my bike.

• Shirley Holmes : Is all this security necessary?

  Robert Holmes : Peace making can be dangerous business.

• Shirley Holmes : The night after a construction worker wsa found unconcious, there was a break-in at the demolition site where he worked and detonators were stolen.

  Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk : So?

  Shirley Holmes : Bo, last night Mr. Howie broke into where he works and tried to steal ammonium hydroxide.

  Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk : So... the aliens are trying to make a bomb?

  Shirley Holmes : Exactly.

• Mr. Howie : Miss Holmes, you're starting to sound like Bart.

  Shirley Holmes : Do you believe me or do you think you're crazy?

• Mr. Howie : It is alien isn't it? I was abducted.

  Shirley Holmes : You're half right, Mr. Howie. You were abducted - but not by aliens.

  [Mr. Howie examines the implant under a magnifying glass] 

  Mr. Howie : Made in... Taiwan.

• Shirley Holmes : Your breathing exercises are unique to say the least.

  Mr. Howie : It's a relaxation technique - part of my therapy for... kinderphobia.

  Shirley Holmes : Kinderphobia?

  Mr. Howie : Fear of... children.

• Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk : So you made her think she was hypnotizing you and then you defused the bomb.

  Shirley Holmes : Let's just say Gram's tai-chi lessons finally paid off. My mind was being controlled - *by me*.

• [last lines] 

  Shirley Holmes : [narrating]  In a way, I'm disappointed that real aliens weren't involved. Something happened to Alan Brooks two years ago - something nobody can explain. But as we all know, when you've eliminated whatever is impossible, what remains, however unlikely, must be the truth.

  [Shirley suddenly spots the mark of an implant on her grandmother's neck]