- Ted Graves: Just because a kid runs away doesn't mean...
- George Keeley: No, I wasn't thinking that. I was thinking he might have gone into the bush.
- Peter Keeley: A city kid - wouldn't he head for the highway?
- George Keeley: Not necessarily. If he's guilty - or he thinks we think he's guilty - he might have wanted to hide.
- George Keeley: [waving at a map] Now you kids were up around here, weren't you?
- Gaby La Roche: [pointing at the map] Right there.
- George Keeley: Ah, up there, there's a lot of muskeg in some pretty deep sloughs. The flood water this time of year makes it a great place for duck, but not for a city kid.
- Ted Graves: You-you mean he might have got lost... or something.
- George Keeley: Or something.