There was a moment of hesitation before the gates swung open. Scrooge had spent the past three hours informing the entire family...and having to convince them that, no, he hadn't gone insane and she hadn't spelled him. He had a terrible migraine from it all.

If it hadn't been for his insistence to go along with the plan, Beakley and Duckworth would've happily "not heard" the intercom.