- Amy Alden: Mama to Papa. That was so cool!
- Thomas Alden: Yeah, great. I just made a criminal out of my own daughter. Now we'll both do time behind bars.
- Amy Alden: Dad, stop being so dramatic.
- Thomas Alden: Now, look, this is just the beginning, Amy. We've got to make 120 nautical miles by sundown, fly across Lake Ontario, cross an international boundary without a permit carrying stolen goods, without filing a flight plan, without any official approval, four days behind schedule. We're on the edge, my dear.
- Amy Alden: [Just after Barry and Tom have accidentally seen her after her shower] HE'S SO WEIRD!
- Susan Barnes: You're right. He is.
- Amy Alden: Who was that guy?
- Susan Barnes: Oh, he's just a guy, and he didn't see you.
- Amy Alden: He did. And why did he bring that guy to CHOP THEIR WINGS OFF?
- Susan Barnes: You're father didn't know he was going to do that. Nobody knew he was going to do that.
- [pause]
- Susan Barnes: Amy, listen to me. I know I can never replace your mother. No one can. But if you let me, I can be your friend. And the first rule about friends is they have to trust each other, right? I promise you, nothing is going to happen to those geese. I won't let it and neither will your dad.
- Amy Alden: [cries]
- DNR Officer: Who's the guy at the house?
- Amy Alden: It's my Uncle David. He's got a black belt. We call him KILLER!
- [watching Amy lead the geese around]
- Thomas Alden: It's amazing, isn't it, how they, uh, follow her around like that?
- DNR Officer: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, uh, called imprinting. The first living thing a goose sees when it's born, it automatically assume is its mother.
- Thomas Alden: Huh.
- DNR Officer: They'll follow her anywhere.
- David Alden: With this baby you could fly over the Empire State Building.
- Thomas Alden: Or end up as a big pound of ground round. One of the two.
- [Startled awake, still remembering a dream]
- David Alden: They came at me from the frozen food section. Their lips were so blue...
- Amy Alden: Why did he bring that ranger guy here to CHOP THEIR WINGS OFF?
- Susan Barnes: Your father didn't know, nobody knew he was going to do that...
- Amy Alden: Yes he did and he's coming back!
- Susan Barnes: No!
- Amy Alden: Yes he is! He said he was!
- Susan Barnes: Amy, listen to me.
- Amy Alden: No!
- [first lines]
- Thomas Alden: Amy? It's your dad.
- Amy Alden: Dad?
- Thomas Alden: I came down from Canada. I've come to take you home.
- Amy Alden: Where's Mom?
- Thomas Alden: Um...
- Amy Alden: Mum died, didn't she?
- Susan Barnes: [about the plan to fly south with the geese] This will never work!
- Thomas Alden: [confused] But I thought you liked the geese.
- Susan Barnes: [shouts] I *DO* LIKE THE GEESE!
- Amy Alden: [the ranger picks up Igor, one of Amy's goslings] Excuse me, sir, please leave him alone.
- DNR Officer: Your name's Amy, isn't it? Well Amy, these geese belong to the crown.
- Amy Alden: What crown?
- DNR Officer: That's the Queen of England.
- Thomas Alden: Pinioning?
- Susan Barnes: I have no idea.
- DNR Officer: She made rules. It's for the good of the goose, it's for the good of the people. Now what you do is you take the wing and you just shave a bit off the cuticle here--
- [prepares to cut the tip off Igor's wing with a fingernail clipper]
- Amy Alden: [utterly enraged] WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
- [shoots up from her chair and hits the ranger on the head with a bowl of popcorn]
- Amy Alden: STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!
- Thomas Alden: [indignantly grabs the ranger and hauls him to the door] What the hell are you doing?