The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (TV Series)

The Alligator Mystery (1997)

Preslaysa Edwards: Cindy Ornette

Quotes 

• Cindy Ornette : 'Write a ten page paper on the animal of your choice.'

  Noah Allen : Ten pages? I couldn't write ten pages on myself.

  Cindy Ornette : Well you must include sections on habitat, mating and the digestive, respiratory, skeletal and circulatory systems.

  Noah Allen : Well that'll help pad it, what're you going to do?

  Cindy Ornette : Vampire bats, I've seen every vampire movie ever made, how different can it be?

  Noah Allen : I guess I'll do the three-toed sloth.

  Cindy Ornette : Why?

  Noah Allen : Just like them.

• Shelby Woo : I can't get my mind off this case; Shannon Gregors' mom identified the bracelet as her daughter's, so Detective Hineline's sending a team to drag the swamp.

  Noah Allen : He's thinking...?

  Cindy Ornette : Like, fed her to the alligators.

• Cindy Ornette : 'The History of Dogs', 'Man's Best Friend', 'Those Doggone Dogs', I thought you were doing the three-toed sloth.

  Noah Allen : I couldn't even find one article on them but there's many findings on dogs.

  Cindy Ornette : Well these vampire bats are even better than vampires; did you know that their stomachs are specially adapted to a diet of blood?

  Noah Allen : Ah, I've been looking for a pet.

• Shelby Woo : Look what I found, it's an article about the opening of Gator World and it mentions that family that lived in the swamp, the Destreys.

  Cindy Ornette : Hmm, 'The opening ceremony was disrupted by the Destrey family, who fired several rounds of ammunition at the Gator World sign, and disappeared into the swamp.'

  Noah Allen : They're a handsome bunch.

  Cindy Ornette : Well I guess fashion isn't a priority when you live in a swamp.

  Shelby Woo : People say they never left.

  Cindy Ornette : Maybe they come out at night to make sure nobody trespasses on their land.

  Shelby Woo : Yeah! Maybe the Destreys got Shannon!

  Noah Allen : This paper's from 1946, wouldn't they all be dead?

  Shelby Woo : Probably, except this little girl Maude, she could still be alive.

• Cindy Ornette : This is a pawn shop, where's the poker game?

  Noah Allen : No, in "Guys and Dolls" they move the dice game around so that the cops couldn't find them, I'll bet you that's what Rench does.

  Cindy Ornette : Mmmm, good thinking!

• Shelby Woo : Thanks for going to see Alfred Rench for me.

  Noah Allen : Don't worry about it, but I think you can pretty much rule him out as a suspect.

  Alfred Rench : [suspect video playback]  You see Shannon, you tell her I want my money!

  Cindy Ornette : Yeah, he really thinks she's alive.

  Shelby Woo : I know, the more I think about McBride, the less guilty he seems. I mean if you fed an old fiancee to the alligators, and a detective was asking you questions, wouldn't you at least pretend to be concerned about her?

  Benjamin McBride : [suspect video playback]  I don't know, and I don't care!

  Cindy Ornette : Well than that leaves Maude Destrey.

  Shelby Woo : I know, but if Maude Destrey makes a habit of feeding people to the gators, why did she save me?

• Noah Allen : [getting his rollerblades off]  Just a second, I've got a knot.

  Cindy Ornette : Hurry Noah, the library closes soon.

  Noah Allen : Look, if I could take off the skate without doing the lace, I would, but I can't, can I?

  Shelby Woo : No you can't! I've got it! The shoe! The shoe I found in the swamp! The laces were tied all the way up and the bow was double knotted, the shoe couldn't have fallen off Shannon Gregor!

  Noah Allen : And if the alligators had eaten her, they would've eaten the shoe too.

  Shelby Woo : Right!

  Cindy Ornette : But then how did it get in the swamp?

  Shelby Woo : Well someone must've put it there! And I think I know who it is!