- Michael Collins: [telling Rosie how he and Matthew accidentally broke the deli window and the mural] It was an accident.
- Lydnsey 'Lyndz' Collins: [narrating] It was a typical M&M mess, but Michael had sworn me to secrecy, so I hadn't been able to tell Rosie myself.
- [a flashback reveals that Matthew and Michael were kicking a soccer ball down the sidewalk and Matthew accidentally kicks it into the deli window, breaking the glass and the mural]
- Rosie Cartwright: Well, why didn't you just tell the Di Pieris what happened?
- Matthew McDougal: Because we just watched them tell half of Crescent Bay how much they loved it. We just... couldn't.
- Rosie Cartwright: So you decided to steal it instead?
- Michael Collins: We figured that if we took it, we could get it fixed. Then we could return it.
- Matthew McDougal: We thought the Di Pieris would be less likely to kill us if we got it back in one piece.
- Michael Collins: That was before we lost a piece somewhere along the beach track.
- Rosie Cartwright: What about the police?
- Lydnsey 'Lyndz' Collins: Rosie, you can't tell them. It was an accident. The boys will fix it and return it.
- Rosie Cartwright: But then I'm back to where I was before. No story. And no story means no article, and no article means... no student cadetship.
- Lydnsey 'Lyndz' Collins: [narrating] All of a sudden, Rosie saw other careers looming.
- [to Michael]
- Lydnsey 'Lyndz' Collins: You better fix that mural fast.
- Marco Di Pieri: I don't get it. You hand the mural the whole time?
- Michael Collins: Well, most of it.
- Matthew McDougal: What's important is that it's here now. We're really sorry we broke your window.
- Marco Di Pieri: My parents are gonna kill you!
- Michael Collins: But we fixed it. They won't be able to tell the difference.
- Matthew McDougal: Look!
- [lays down the mural, but Marco sees they pieced it together very badly]
- Marco Di Pieri: [gasps] My parents are so gonna kill you!
- Michael Collins: We'll work for free until we've paid off the window.
- Matthew McDougal: We'll do your worst chores, like scraping out the bins.
- Michael Collins: And cleaning underneath the fridge and slicing the salami.
- Marco Di Pieri: But I like slicing the salami.
- Michael Collins: I know. I've just always wanted to have a go at that awesome slicing machine!
- Matthew McDougal: Come on, man, you gotta help us out.
- Marco Di Pieri: You smashed our family heirloom!
- Michael Collins: Isn't there something you could do?
- Rosie Cartwright: [someone has broken the deli window and taken the mural] So they just smashed the window and took it?
- Mrs. Di Pierl: How could anybody do such a thing?
- Rosie Cartwright: Um, I'd like to write about the incident for the Bay Times.
- Marco Di Pieri: I'll take care of it. Mom's too upset right now.
- Rosie Cartwright: Did you see anyone suspicious-looking around the time of the theft?
- Marco Di Pieri: [sacrastcally] Apart from the guy dressed in black lycra wearing a balaclava.
- Rosie Cartwright: Very funny.
- Marco Di Pieri: There's no story to write, Rosie. We didn't see anything. We don't know who did it or why.
- Rosie Cartwright: But there must be something.
- Marco Di Pieri: Nothing. End of interview.