How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Home Alone.
Quote #1
HARRY: There's always a lot of burglaries around the holidays. So we're just checking the neighborhood to see if everyone's taking the proper precautions; that's all.
PETER: Oh, yeah. Well we have automatic timers for our lights, locks for our doors. That's about as well as anybody can do these days, right? Did you get some eggnog or something like that?
Ironically, Harry—who's impersonating a cop and pretending to be guarding the neighborhood—is actually a burglar himself! He's insinuating himself into their comfortable world, getting ready to strike…
Quote #2
HARRY: And that's the one, Marvin. And that's the silver tuna.
MARV: It's very G.
HARRY: Very G, huh? It's loaded. It's got lots of top-flight goods. Stereos, VCRs…
MARV: Toys?
HARRY: Probably looking at some very fine jewelry, possible cash hoard, odd marketable securities… Who knows? It's a gem. Grab your crowbar.
Marv and Harry are covetous. They can't admire all this prosperity at a distance. It inspires them to go for it.
Quote #3
HARRY: What's so funny? What are you laughing at? You did it again, didn't you? You left the water running. What's wrong with you? Why do you do that? I told you not to do it.
MARV: Harry, it's our calling card!
HARRY: Calling card.
MARV: All the great ones leave their mark. We're the wet bandits!
Beneath Marv's stupid gimmick, there's a hard streak of destructive fury. It's not enough for him to plunder these houses—he needs to physically ruin them too, by flooding them.