Silver Spoons (TV Series)

The Babysitters (1985)

Joel Higgins: Edward Stratton III

Quotes 

• Edward Stratton III : Three years, if only Beth told someone sooner, the police, a teacher, a minister...

• Ricky Stratton : Dad, I need to talk to you about Beth. Now it may just be her imagination, but she said that when she was with her mom, she used to see a monster that looked like this.

  Edward Stratton III : The Minuteman?

  Ricky Stratton : Yeah, it's in Concord, Massachusetts, so my hunch is maybe she used to live there.

  Edward Stratton III : And maybe her mom still does. Let's check and see if there was ever a Beth from Concord, Massachusetts reported missing.

• Edward Stratton III : [on phone]  Sergeant Henshaw, yes this is Edward Stratton, I spoke to you about a possible missing child named Beth Barton. Yeah well we have reason to believe that she may have lived in Concord, Massachusetts before she was abducted. Uh huh.

  [to Ricky] 

  Edward Stratton III : She's gonna check the computer.

  [into phone] 

  Edward Stratton III : Yeah? uh huh, uh huh. Yeah, we'll be here, do you have my address? Yeah, I USED to have the Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer on the front lawn, my wife thought it was too Christmassy. There's a frog out there now. Okay, we'll be here.

  [hangs up] 

  Edward Stratton III : Well, she says that they found out that there was a Beth Thompson who was abducted from her mother over 3 years ago in Concord, Massachusetts.

• Edward Stratton III : Well, she says that they found out that there was a Beth Thompson who was abducted from her mother over 3 years ago in Concord, Massachusetts.

  Ricky Stratton : It's true? How could anybody do that to their own kid?

  Edward Stratton III : Well son, sometimes in a divorce situation parents try to hurt each other through their children. Now we don't know all the facts here.

  Ricky Stratton : Would you have done that if Mom had custody of me?

  Edward Stratton III : I don't know, son.

  Ricky Stratton : But you wouldn't tell me my mother never wanted to see me again.

  Edward Stratton III : No, I wouldn't do that. Nothing justifies that.

  [hugs Ricky]