- Cleo Sertori: Lewis, what do you think of Rikki?
- Lewis McCartney: You know those stonefish, that kind of look like a rock, yet can shoot enough poison to kill an entire football team in half a second? She kind of reminds me of one of those.
- Lewis McCartney: Rikki, can I sit?
- Rikki: I certainly hope so, just not with me.
- [Lewis sits in the seat opposite Rikki]
- [first lines]
- Cleo Sertori: [Puts her hand too far into a fish tank and gets water on her skin] No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- Kim Sertori: [knocks on Cleo's bedroom door] Cleo!
- [Cleo tries drying her hand quickly. Kim knocks again]
- Kim Sertori: Cleo!
- [Cleo falls to the floor]
- Kim Sertori: Cleo!
- [knocks again]
- Kim Sertori: Dad says you have to hurry up if you want a lift to school.
- Cleo Sertori: It's OK, Kim. I'll walk.
- [grabs her mobile phone to send a picture to Emma and Rikki]
- [last lines]
- Rikki: This probably goes without saying, but if you tell, we maim you.
- Lewis McCartney: I'm not that stupid. If anybody found out, you'd end up as science experiments.
- Emma: I quit the swim team today.
- Cleo Sertori: Oh Emma, I know how much that means to you.
- Emma: Still, what do I do?
- Cleo Sertori: This whole thing is just out of control. It's just too big.
- Lewis McCartney: Let me get this straight.
- [points his hands to Emma]
- Lewis McCartney: You freeze things,
- [points his hands to Cleo]
- Lewis McCartney: you explode things
- [points his hands to Rikki]
- Lewis McCartney: and you boil things, and you all grow tails. It's just too bizarre.
- Emma: Bizarre? Yep. Still sometimes it's good, and sometimes it's not so good.
- Cleo Sertori: It's
- [pause]
- Cleo Sertori: It's
- [pause]
- Cleo Sertori: I don't have a word for it.
- Rikki: I do, three of them. Totally, absolutely, awesome.
- Cleo Sertori: [entering with beauty care product] This is a catastrophe of the highest order. Moisturizer is mainly water.
- Rikki: [lying on her back, thinking about new possibilities] If dolphins can swim for miles, so can we.
- Cleo Sertori: We can't moisturize ever again.
- Cleo Sertori: [Zane and Nate are swinging Cleo, preparing to throw her into a pool] No, please! Stop! Please!
- Zane: What do you reckon, Nate? On three?
- Cleo Sertori: No!
- Zane: One...
- Cleo Sertori: Please stop!
- Zane: Two...
- Lewis McCartney: [arriving at the pool] Let her go, Zane!
- Zane: If you insist.
- [He and Nate throw Cleo in the pool]
- Lewis McCartney: Do you have a brain?
- Zane: You told me to let her go. I let her go.
- Emma: Well. If we learn more about what is happening to us, we might be able to control it enough to go to the party.
- Cleo Sertori: Really?
- Rikki: What's to learn? We touch water, and ten seconds later, we grow tails.
- Cleo Sertori: We're never going to be invited anywhere cool ever again. And why? Because we've got tails!
- Lewis McCartney: [on the rocks, at his fishing spot] Hey, you guys!
- [as mermaid-mode Emma and Rikki duck away]
- Lewis McCartney: Are you naked again?
- Rikki: Uh... we're having a bit of a girl talk, Lewis.
- Lewis McCartney: Yes, but are you naked?
- Emma: Go, Lewis!
- Lewis McCartney: No, I'm here to fish. Look, I'm having withdrawals, I need the relaxation. If anyone's going, it's you guys.
- Rikki: Don't push it, Lewis!
- Emma: Yeah, shouldn't you be following Cleo around?
- Lewis McCartney: [frowns] No, no way, I'm... I'm totally over that, trust me. I don't know what's going on with Cleo lately, she just can't make up her mind.
- [cellphone chimes, SMS comes in for him]
- Lewis McCartney: You see what I mean? It's Cleo! She's going to the party... *again!* I give up!
- Emma: Lewis, you gotta do us a favor. Make sure Cleo doesn't go to the party on her own.
- [Lewis shakes his head]
- Emma: Call her back.
- Lewis McCartney: No, I'm here to fish.
- Rikki: Lewis, this is important. She could be in trouble.