- [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!
- Bartholomew 'Bart' James: Archaeologists believe the Great Pyramid was built by slaves as a grand tomb for the pharaoh... but they're wrong! The Great Pyramid was, in fact, built by beings from another galaxy - extraterrestrials.
- Mr. Howie: Is this your idea of a joke, Mr. James?
- Bartholomew 'Bart' James: I've done tons of research. The Egyptians even drew pictures of their sun god flying around ina spacecraft.
- Mr. Howie: Sit down, Bart. This is a history class, not a Star Trek convention.
- 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: 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]