Howard Sykes comes home from school one day to find a strange man in his kitchen -- a goon (he won't give his real name). He explains that Archer has sent him to pick up two thousand words from Howard's father, and he wont leave until he gets them.
Catriona Sykes
Quentin Sykes
Awful
Goon
Howard Sykes
Fifi
Ginger
Archer
Hathaway
Shine
Torquil
Maisie Potter
Dillian
Mountjoy
Anne Hathaway
Awful, grown up
Museum attendant
Hathaway's man
Secretary
Music Master
Roadmender
Robot (voice)
Mr. Wiggins
Receptionist