- Edward Stratton III: Three years, if only Beth told someone sooner, the police, a teacher, a minister...
- Ricky Stratton: [when Henry and Tommy's mom picks them up] No problem at all. They're model children.
- [He closes the door, then leans against it]
- Ricky Stratton: And when they grow up, they're gonna be model prisoners.
- Ricky Stratton: Dad, I need to talk to you about Beth. Now it may just be her imagination, but she said that when she was with her mom, she used to see a monster that looked like this.
- Edward Stratton III: The Minuteman?
- Ricky Stratton: Yeah, it's in Concord, Massachusetts, so my hunch is maybe she used to live there.
- Edward Stratton III: And maybe her mom still does. Let's check and see if there was ever a Beth from Concord, Massachusetts reported missing.
- Edward Stratton III: [on phone] Sergeant Henshaw, yes this is Edward Stratton, I spoke to you about a possible missing child named Beth Barton. Yeah well we have reason to believe that she may have lived in Concord, Massachusetts before she was abducted. Uh huh.
- [to Ricky]
- Edward Stratton III: She's gonna check the computer.
- [into phone]
- Edward Stratton III: Yeah? uh huh, uh huh. Yeah, we'll be here, do you have my address? Yeah, I USED to have the Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer on the front lawn, my wife thought it was too Christmassy. There's a frog out there now. Okay, we'll be here.
- [hangs up]
- Edward Stratton III: Well, she says that they found out that there was a Beth Thompson who was abducted from her mother over 3 years ago in Concord, Massachusetts.
- Edward Stratton III: Well, she says that they found out that there was a Beth Thompson who was abducted from her mother over 3 years ago in Concord, Massachusetts.
- Ricky Stratton: It's true? How could anybody do that to their own kid?
- Edward Stratton III: Well son, sometimes in a divorce situation parents try to hurt each other through their children. Now we don't know all the facts here.
- Ricky Stratton: Would you have done that if Mom had custody of me?
- Edward Stratton III: I don't know, son.
- Ricky Stratton: But you wouldn't tell me my mother never wanted to see me again.
- Edward Stratton III: No, I wouldn't do that. Nothing justifies that.
- [hugs Ricky]
- Mrs. Thompson: Beth?
- Beth: Mommy? Mommy!
- [runs to her]
- Mrs. Thompson: [hugs her, in tears] Oh she knows me, she remembers me!
- [crying]
- Mrs. Thompson: Oh my little girl, I've missed you so much! Look how you've grown!
- Beth: I thought you didn't want me anymore.
- Mrs. Thompson: Oh of course I want you!
- [to the Strattons]
- Mrs. Thompson: Oh thank you, thank you so much.
- Ricky Stratton: This is R. B. Stratton, President and Chief Executive of Sitting Pretty Babysitting Corp... . Yes, this is Ricky, the kid next door.