- [first lines]
- Tyler Burnside: [narrating] The first murder happened before I was born. The killer called himself Clovehitch, after his favorite type of knot. Our town lived in fear, and then, ten years ago, he stopped.
- Susie Burnside: I want pancakes.
- Cindy Burnside: Well, you're in luck, because oatmeal is pancakes that Big Bird chewed up.