Meredith Henderson: Shirley Holmes

Quotes 

• Shirley Holmes : I'm sorry about Sir Edward dying.

  Peggy Holmes : The ancient Egyptians believed that the Ka, the conscience, lingered in the land of the living after death.

• Shirley Holmes : What curse was he talking about?

  Chester Stebbings : What?

  Shirley Holmes : Your father - did he think he was cursed?

  Chester Stebbings : Only by nosy children.

• [Shirley is trying to break into Sir Edward's house] 

  Bo Sawchuk : No way. It's stunts like this that landed me in a monkey suit at Sussex.

  Shirley Holmes : Bo, those men accused my grandmother of being a thief and a floozy. Are you in or not?

  [Bo breaks the door lock] 

• [Bo and Shirley emerge from a tiny dumbwaiter] 

  Bo Sawchuk : If we ever do that again - and I hope we don't - I just have one request. Lay off the garlic at lunch.

  Shirley Holmes : Ha. Ha.

• [Shirley is analyzing the special tea her grandmother has been drinking] 

  Shirley Holmes : This stuff isn't like any other tea I've ever seen before.

  Bo Sawchuk : You think maybe those guys slipped something into it?

  Shirley Holmes : Wouldn't put it past them. And it would explain why she's been so...

  Bo Sawchuk : Nuts?

• Bo Sawchuk : Well, maybe it's not even the tea. There's an article in here on Sir Edward Stebbings and the tomb of Amenhaten.

  Shirley Holmes : The Boy King - his most famous find. Gran was with him.

  Bo Sawchuk : She was?

  Shirley Holmes : Yeah, why?

  Bo Sawchuk : But it says here there was a curse on anyone who distrubed the tomb and... their families, too.

• Bo Sawchuk : I can't believe I'm graverobbing.

  Shirley Holmes : Sir Edward was the graverobber. We're rescuing what he robbed.

• [reading a gravestone covered with hieroglyphics] 

  Shirley Holmes : The dates are in English. Born 1964...

  Bo Sawchuk : Died in 1952?

  Shirley Holmes , Bo Sawchuk : B.C.!

• [last lines] 

  [Shirley puts Amenhaten's toy in a packing case addressed to the Egyptian National Museum in Cairo] 

  Shirley Holmes : I prefer to think of Amenhaten, not as a mummy or a king, but as Sir Edward saw him - a 12-year old boy. The ancient Egyptians believe the next word is as real as this one. If that's true, Amenhaten will be needing this wherever he is.