The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (TV Series)

Eye of the Storm (1997)

Irene Ng: Shelby Woo

Quotes 

• Shelby Woo : [on the phone while everyone's making noise in the background]  What's that, Grandpa? I can hardly hear you. No it's not the storm, just getting ready. Listen, I'm really glad you called because, what's that? You've got the shakes? Well me too, I mean we're all a little worried about the... what, milkshakes? What're you talking about? Oh! You and the senior citizens stopped for milkshakes! That's great, that's really delicious and everything, but listen Grandpa, I really need to talk to you. I don't want you to worry but it's not just the storm and being trapped, there's trouble too. Yeah, there... hello? Grandpa? Hello? I can't hear you! Grandpa are you there? Could everyone please... excuse me a minute... QUIET!

  [everything stops] 

  Shelby Woo : ... please?

• Gina Michaels : [the storm knocks a tree branch through a window]  What do we do now?

  Chase Cavanaugh : We're almost in the eye of the hurricane. It'll be calm then, but we only have a few minutes before it builds back up again.

  Shelby Woo : Well we need to get that window covered. Cindy, get the toolbox from the kitchen, Noah, you help me get another piece of plywood. You two get the branch out of there... sorry, Detective.

  Det. Whit Hineline : No, no, it's alright, you see what you just did there? You took charge.

• Melanie Turner : Is there anything else I can do?

  Shelby Woo : See if you can get Miss Guthrie to hurry up.

  Melanie Turner : I'll threaten her if I have to.

• Shelby Woo : I was putting new batteries in all the flashlights when Miss Guthrie came over to me. She asked me to put her watch into the safe.

  Det. Whit Hineline : Was anybody nearby?

  Melanie Turner : Me. I wanted to look at the watch and Miss Guthrie let me try it on.

  Det. Whit Hineline : Show me where you were standing.

  Melanie Turner : [points]  Right there.

  Gina Michaels : Uh uh. No my dear, you were standing right over here.

  Det. Whit Hineline : Are you sure?

  Gina Michaels : Sure.

  Melanie Turner : Well what difference does that make?

  Gina Michaels : Oh one big difference, from HERE, you can see the combination.

• Cindy Ornette : You saw how she reacted when she tried on the watch, she loved it.

  Noah Allen : Yeah, so did Shelby, I don't see anybody accusing her!

  Shelby Woo : Come on, cut it out. Noah's right, we have to look at all possible suspects. Now who was in the room?

  Cindy Ornette : The magician and his wife were by the door.

  Noah Allen : There was the junior weatherman, he was making his documentary.

  Shelby Woo : And Melanie, they were all in the room.

  Cindy Ornette : But Melanie was the only one close enough to see the combination.

• Cindy Ornette : Melanie! Noah! Sorry. I really messed that one up.

  Shelby Woo : I wasn't much help myself. There's only one thing we can do.

  Cindy Ornette , Shelby Woo : Figure out who did it.

• Shelby Woo : [just as Melanie's about to reveal who she suspects, the power goes out, a thud is heard, Melanie groans, and everybody's scrambling in the dark]  Does anybody have a flashlight?

  Det. Whit Hineline : Yeah here's one. Oh wait, it doesn't work, the batteries are dead.

  Noah Allen : Where's Melanie?

  Shelby Woo : [turns on a flashlight]  She's gone.

• Shelby Woo : Where do you think Melanie is?

  Cindy Ornette : She's not in here.

  Shelby Woo : Maybe someone put her under the bed.

  Cindy Ornette : I'm not looking under there.

• Cindy Ornette : [encountering Noah in the dark]  Geez Noah! Do you have to lurk?

  Noah Allen : I'm not LURKING, I was coming to help.

  Cindy Ornette : Well don't sneak up on us. There's a crazy attacker person around here.

  Shelby Woo : And they've already taken out Melanie.

  Noah Allen : Yeah, just as she was about to reveal who did it.

  Cindy Ornette : Who could it have been?

  Shelby Woo : I don't know, but whoever did it is still in this house.

• Det. Whit Hineline : Did you find her?

  Cindy Ornette : She's not upstairs.

  Gina Michaels : Not here either.

  Chase Cavanaugh : Well maybe she ran out into the storm.

  Shelby Woo : No, I thought of that, but if she opened a door, water would've come in here. And all the floors are dry.

  Det. Whit Hineline : And I checked out back, there's nothing.

  Noah Allen : Well she couldn't have just disappeared.

  Shelby Woo : [looks to the magician box]  Oh yeah?

  [opens it up and Melanie falls out, unconscious] 

• Shelby Woo : It's not enough I have a hurricane, and my grandfather's not here, and Melanie was attacked, and the watch has been stolen, now I have to make sandwiches?

  Noah Allen : Ooh, can I have turkey and cheese?

• Cindy Ornette : That crowd is really getting scary.

  Shelby Woo : And the mystery is getting more complicated too. Who has a reason to steal the watch?

  Cindy Ornette : Chase's funding is about to run out, he could use the money.

  Shelby Woo : So could Gina and Alex, they want to stop traveling and open a magic shop.

  Cindy Ornette : What about Elizabeth Guthrie? She's a little odd.

  Noah Allen : Why would she steal her own watch?

  Shelby Woo : Because she told me that when she can't figure out what to write, she likes to put unsuspecting people in the same situation as her characters.

  Cindy Ornette : You mean she may just be using us all as guinea pigs for some plot?

  Noah Allen : Great, so everybody has a motive.

  Cindy Ornette : Nobody had any access.

  Shelby Woo : Well someone had to have, because someone got in there.

• Shelby Woo : This equipment's going wild.

  Det. Whit Hineline : This equipment doesn't miss a thing.

  Shelby Woo : [they look to each other]  Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

• Gina Michaels : What is going on here? I mean who could've done this?

  Shelby Woo : Yeah, who could break into the safe, attack Melanie, and knock you out?

• Melanie Turner : We better set the fridge on high, get everything nice and cold in case the power goes out later.

  Shelby Woo : Ooh, good idea.

  Cindy Ornette : You want me to fill up the bathtubs with water?

  Shelby Woo : What?

  Cindy Ornette : Extra drinking water, we can't have too much.

  Shelby Woo : Exactly right.

  Noah Allen : We're running out of plywood, so I'm thinking maybe the shutters, they'll be enough on the porch windows?

  Shelby Woo : Yeah.

• Shelby Woo : Today at the police department, they've got me restocking the emergency supplies, it's something you think about in Florida, we're still cleaning up from Hurricane Isador.

• Det. Whit Hineline : Shelby? There was some trouble at the Sand Dollar Surf Shop, I need some blank missing property forms.

  Shelby Woo : Oh. What's missing?

  Det. Whit Hineline : The whole shop. Hurricane blew it away, somebody saw a surfboard over on Pomert.