- [first lines]
- Shirley Holmes: Alicia invited me to a native ceremony where the museum was returning the bones of native warriors to their people. It was a rare opportunity to experience the sights and sounds and smells of a sacred ceremony.
- [a masked Native-American dancer leaps around the ceremonial circle to honor the reinternment of warriors' bones]
- Shirley Holmes: It was Coyote, the spirit who teaches lessons by using pranks and jokes, but it looked to me like he'd just stolen Box B98.
- Shirley Holmes: Who played "Coyote"?
- Mac: I don't know, but you better not mess with him.
- Shirley Holmes: Why not?
- Mac: Because he'll use his tricks on you.
- [Shirley translates a message using a dictionary of Native American languages]
- Francis Boris 'Bo' Sawchuk: So, what does the message say?
- Shirley Holmes: According to this - good weather.
- [Shirley shows Mac the message in an Native American tongue she found at the scene of the crime]
- Mac: Blue sky.
- Shirley Holmes: It's a weather report.
- Mac: You're thinking in a straight line.
- [Mac shows Shirley a late-19th century picture of a Native American wearing a top hat and pince nez]
- Mac: Yep - this is Blue Sky.
- [last lines]
- Shirley Holmes: [narrating] As for the animals that got in the way of my investigation...
- [a crow drops a stone on Shirley's head]
- Shirley Holmes: ...Mac might say Blue Sky's spirit guardian sent them and I would have to entertain that possibility, however remote.