Rod Sell: Officer Bennett
Quotes
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Officer Bennett : [talking on the phone] Merry Christmas.
[hangs up and shakes his head]
Officer Bennett : No sign of him. Well, we're gonna have to be able to get ahold of you. Do you have hotel arrangements?
Peter McCallister : Yeah.
Officer Bennett : Do you have a, uh, a recent photo of the boy?
[Kate looks in her purse]
Peter McCallister : I have one in my wallet.
[checks his pants]
Peter McCallister : I don't *have* my wallet.
[Kate looks at him]
Peter McCallister : My wallet's in my bag.
[realising]
Peter McCallister : Kevin was looking into my bag at the airport. He was looking for batteries. Kevin has my wallet.
Officer Bennett : [points to Peter] Did you have credit cards in the wallet?
Peter McCallister : [shrugs] Credit cards, money...
Officer Bennett : We'll notify the credit card companies immediately. If your son has the cards, we can get a location on him *when* and *if* he uses them.
Kate McCallister : [shakes her head] No, I don't think Kevin even knows how to *use* a credit card.
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Officer Bennett : What's the child's name?
Peter McCallister , Kate McCallister : Kevin.
Kate McCallister : *K*-E-V... I-N.
Officer Bennett : When did you see him last?
Kate McCallister : Curbside check-in?
Peter McCallister : No, I saw him at the door. He was with us in the terminal.
Officer Bennett : Most people get seperated at security checkpoints. Did everybody get through security?
Kate McCallister : I don't know. Peter...
Peter McCallister : Hurry, we were in a hurry. We-- We had to run all the way to the gate.
Officer Bennett : When did you *notice* he was missing?
Kate McCallister : When we... picked up our baggage here.
Officer Bennett : Has the boy ever run away from home?
Peter McCallister : No.
Officer Bennett : Has he ever been in a situation where he's been on his own?
[Kate shakes her head; Peter gives her a look]
Peter McCallister : *Mmm*.
Kate McCallister : As a... matter of fact, this has happened before. It's become sort of a McCallister Family travel tradition.
Peter McCallister : Funnily enough, we... never lose our luggage.
[they laugh and knock on the wooden desk; Officer Bennett stares unamused; they stop laughing]
Kate McCallister : He was left at home, by accident, last year.
Peter McCallister : That's what my wife meant when she said it was becoming a McCallister Family travel tradition.
Officer Bennett : [nods] We'll call Chicago and, uh, notify them of the situation. Odds are that's where he is.
Peter McCallister : Thanks.
Officer Bennett : *Very* unlikely he'd be anywhere else.